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re: Login as different user?
Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 8:42 am
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Posted by Monkey Phat (1 messages posted)


I've been looking for this solution for a while. You can hide it, but you can't get to it to use it. That was a really cool feature of XP, can't imagine why they got rid of it. They gave up too much availability in the name of security. If I get it, I'll let you know. Do the same please?


On Monday, February 4, 2008 at 12:11 pm, appleoddity wrote:
>


>Let me explain a little more clearly what I need.
>
>In XP you could hide user accounts and they would not show up on the WIndows XP welcome
>screen. You would have to press ctrl-alt-del twice in order to get to the classic
>login screen where you could then type in the hidden username and password.
>
>I want to do this in Vista. But it appears Vista wants to force me to use the welcome
>screen.. How do I switch on the fly if I choose to login as someone like "administrator?"
> when the administrator account is not listed.
>
>There has got to be a key combination or something to display the username/password
>form.
>




Written in response to:
re: Login as different user? (appleoddity: Monday, February 4, 2008 at 12:11 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Login as different user? (appleoddity: Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 12:07 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Login as different user? (appleoddity: Mon, Feb 4, 2008, 10:36 am)
-re: Login as different user? (Shawn: Mon, Feb 4, 2008, 11:22 am)
-re: Login as different user? (appleoddity: Mon, Feb 4, 2008, 12:11 pm)
*re: Login as different user? (Shawn: Mon, Feb 4, 2008, 12:37 pm)
-re: Login as different user? (Monkey Phat: Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 8:42 am)
*re: Login as different user? (appleoddity: Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 12:07 pm)
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