Revert Back to CTRL+ALT+DELETE for the Vista Logon Screen

For the 99% of you that have been using Windows OS systems most of your lives the standard login for several versions have been to use Control+ALT+DELETE key combination to login. This quick walk through will show you how to enable CTRL+ALT+DELETE for Windows Vista.

First go to the start menu and type in netplwiz

Use the netplwiz command

This will bring up the User Accounts window, click the Advanced tab and at the bottom place a check in the box Require Users to Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and click OK

Account Manager Panel - Enable CTRL+ALT+DELETE

Now when you power up you will have a CTRL+ALT+DELETE prompt

After hitting CTRL+ALT+DELETE you will go to the normal screen that lists your user accounts. If you want to have the traditional logon box asking for userid/password you can run this from a elevated command prompt:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ /v
LogonType /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Now you will have to hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and then enter your username/password to logon to your Vista box from now on.

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One Response to “Revert Back to CTRL+ALT+DELETE for the Vista Logon Screen”

  1. Daniel Says:
    April 13th, 2007 at 7:55 pm

    Great tip! I need to use active directory on a vista pc and i haven’t known until you told me. Thanx

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