Something strange is happend. On a few desktops the last user that logged in on the machine is not rememberd. The machines are in the same OU as the machines where the last user is rememberd. There is nothing changed in the GPO's. I have tried to put the machines in a OU that has no GPO's connected so a clean login. It doesn't matter which user logs in on the machine after a restart the user is not filled in, i click ctrl-alt-del and the username and password are empty. Normally the last user is filled in. When i look at the settings in Windows 7 and look at the useraccounts - control useraccounts and then the advanced tab then there is a setting: secure login "users must press ctrl-alt-del. This setting i can change on the machine as an administrator to do that of choose to not do that, but on the machines where the last user is not rememberd i cannot change this it is greyed out although i am a administrator.... Maybe this has something to do with it. How can i find out what is cousing that the last username is not rememberd? freddie

This can be changed by local security policy, applying a registry change at logon maybe via script or more commonly it will be in a group policy. to change the setting locally go to control panel/administrative tools/local computer policy find local policies/security options: interactive logon: do not display last username or if you type gpedit.msc computer configuration/windows settings/security options: interactive logon: do not display last username if its a group policy been applied then you can see what policies are applying by typing at the command prompt gpresult /v Also you may want to use group policy management console to find the policy and change it if required.

This can be changed by local security policy, applying a registry change at logon maybe via script or more commonly it will be in a group policy. to change the setting locally go to control panel/administrative tools/local computer policy find local policies/security options: interactive logon: do not display last username or if you type gpedit.msc computer configuration/windows settings/security options: interactive logon: do not display last username if its a group policy been applied then you can see what policies are applying by typing at the command prompt gpresult /v Also you may want to use group policy management console to find the policy and change it if required. That is the problem. I can't see what group policy it does. I have several desktops that have the same group policy's but only a few have the last user not remembred....I know what group policy's the desktops are getting but non of them have these settings applied and standard the last username is remembred.. freddie

Hi, Please check the registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DontDisplayLastName To remember the last user name, the value of this registry keys should be 0.Kim Zhou TechNet Community Support

Hi, Please check the registry keys below. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DontDisplayLastName To remember the last user name, the value of this registry keys should be 0. Kim Zhou TechNet Community Support Yes thx. i already have done that it has the value 0. If it stays with only ta few pc's it isn't that a problem but if more desktops come then it is goiing to be a problem.. freddie

I have found in the past that a 2003 domain and windows 7 desktops, this setting doesn't get applied. Possibly because its missing: Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions for Windows Server 2003 (KB943729) One possible way that you could combat this is run the script manually on the desktop, create a logon script or gpo that runs a script which applies a registry file, or group policy that runs a script, this only needs to be ran one time per workstation. regedit.exe /s donotdisplaylastusername.reg The contents of donotdisplaylastusername.reg is: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000000 "ConsentPromptBehaviorUser"=dword:00000003 "EnableInstallerDetection"=dword:00000001 "EnableLUA"=dword:00000000 "EnableSecureUIAPaths"=dword:00000001 "EnableUIADesktopToggle"=dword:00000000 "EnableVirtualization"=dword:00000001 "PromptOnSecureDesktop"=dword:00000000 "ValidateAdminCodeSignatures"=dword:00000000 "dontdisplaylastusername"=dword:00000001 "legalnoticecaption"="" "legalnoticetext"="" "scforceoption"=dword:00000000 "shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001 "undockwithoutlogon"=dword:00000001 "FilterAdministratorToken"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI\Clipboard] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\UIPI\Clipboard\ExceptionFormats] "CF_TEXT"=dword:00000001 "CF_BITMAP"=dword:00000002 "CF_OEMTEXT"=dword:00000007 "CF_DIB"=dword:00000008 "CF_PALETTE"=dword:00000009 "CF_UNICODETEXT"=dword:0000000d "CF_DIBV5"=dword:00000011