Re: Traditional Three Finger Salute Logon

Oookay... thanks Muxster...

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"muxster" <muxster@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6D1381F2-EF5C-4C68-9986-1E77EA1607B6@microsoft.com...

> Word brother! One hand on the budwiser and the other on the F12 hotkey =
> Reboot.exe
> Office 12 str8 sucks!!! Crashes left and right...! Beta Release 2007
> XPS is hurtin me!
>
> = )
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> "Al Christoph" <al.christoph@3bears.biz> wrote in message
> news:FF90309A-4904-40FD-B1FE-1531BD52A159@microsoft.com...

>> One of the things I've done to protect my client systems in my SBS
>> Network is to set the Policy that forces the standard three finger salute
>> dialog box for log on (not Fast User Switching) AND to set the policy
>> that hides the previously logged on user.
>>
>> ASIDE: If MS is lurking I hope that released Vista will also make it
>> possible to hide the logged on user when prompting for the screen saver
>> password. It should be possible to force the user to always offer up two
>> pieces of information to get into the system when either there is no one
>> logged on or it is locked.
>>
>> REQUEST: Please, what are the exact directions to get this type of
>> behavior in Vista? For those of us who are new to this please start with
>> something like Start | Administrative Tools ... or what have you. (I was
>> appalled to see the SBS style GPO dialog come up when I tried to do
>> client stuff. I still haven't figured that all out for the server. I sure
>> didn't want to see it on the client:-((
>>
>> ASIDE: Lurkers from MS, you might ask your grandpa what it was like
>> dealing with IBM main frame OS's back in the 60's. You will then learn
>> why PC's caught on. You could get your work done while thumbing your nose
>> at the priesthood in MIS that tended the alter of the corporate mainframe
>> and its 3270 terminals. Let's put the personal back in PC while keeping
>> in mind KISS.
>>
>> Again I want to get rid of Fast User Switching style logon. (I don't care
>> whether FUS goes away, just that style of logon.) AND I want to make sure
>> that the last user ID is NOT displayed when logging in. In detail, how to
>> I do this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Al Christoph
>> Three Bears Software, LLC
>> just right software @ just right prices @ 3bears.biz

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