How to make Windows 10 ask the user name and password when connecting

How to make Windows 10 ask the user name and password when connecting -

When Windows 10 starts, it shows you a login screen prompting you to enter a password. If you have more than one user in your operating system account you will be able to click on the account user the image you want, then enter the account password. Instead, you can make Windows 10 asks you to type the user name too, and the password to the login screen. It is a good measure of security and privacy. Here is how this can be done

To make Windows 10 ask the user name and password on the login screen , you have to do following:.

1. Press Win + R shortcut keys together on the keyboard to open the Run dialog box. Type the following command in the Run dialog box:

    secpol.msc 

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2. Local Security Policy will be opened. There, go to the following address:

    Local  Security Options 

3. Scroll to the option called Interactive logon: Do not display last user name . Set it to Enabled as shown below :.
4. Click Apply and OK and sign in using your Start menu

before:

After to instead of the name of the user account specified with an image tile, the login screen now displays the text "other user" and two text fields, where you can type your user name and password, if was created. Now you'll be able to connect even in hidden accounts.

If your edition of Windows 10 comes without the tool Local Security Policy (Home editions do not have it), then you can make the same change with a simple registry tweak as

1. Open the Registry editor
2. Navigate to the following registry key :.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE  SOFTWARE  Microsoft  Windows  CurrentVersion  Policies  System 

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3. Edit 32-bit DWORD value named DontDisplayLastUserName and set its value data to 1, as shown below:
4. Restart your computer for the setting to take effect

to cancel this setting, set the value data "DontDisplayLastUserName" 0 or toggle the "interactive logon. : do not display "option to return the" last name disabled user. "

The same can be done using Winaero Tweaker . Go to startup and logon -> Hide User Name :.

Use this option to avoid modifying the registry

Also, I prepared loan registry files for use, which you can download here:

download registry files

just open the registry files for the changes they

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