Win98 Password

[John-the-Teacher]

When using the Win98 passwords, Ive notice that when you 'cancil' you can reasonable, get all the same stuff, 'around' the reason for using a password.

Any Sug

[Murf]

Unless you have a PROFILE set up the Windows password is useless.

If you want to protect, then you need to set up profiles for each user.

Is there more then one person using the computer? Have you set up Profiles for each user?

[Ridgerunr]

If you do not have it set up for more than 1 user and want to simply get rid of this nag. Go to Start>settings>control panel>double click network to open. On the dropdown menu,choose "Windows logon" instead of "client for microsoft networks". This should do away with the logon box at boot.

[Cowboy622]

If you don't want cancel to be allowed to bypass the need for a password and don't want to set up different users:
Previously posted by Davey7549 and Tony Klein:

To prevent escape or cancel from being used for logon to the default menu you need to add a value in the registry. Before you do the registry work please do a backup. In order to protect yourself from serious problems you need to backup you registry before you proceed.

Backup to desktop
Step 1- Go to start\run and type in regedit hit enter.
Step 2- Once regedit screen appears click on registry tab on top and click export.
Step 3- Name file 911backup.reg
Step 4- Select the all button on bottom
Step 5- Direct the save to your desktop.

Note: If something goes wrong you can doubleclick the 911backup.reg file and click OK to merge. This action will restore your registry to previous condition. (Keep in mind that restoring the backup you made by exporting the registry won't get rid of a value added that wasn't there before* see below You need to open Regedit, navigate to the value you created, doubleclick it, and reset its value to 0, or delete the value altogether, if you'd like to get rid of it.)

Now that the backup is secure and on your desktop lets proceed to the registry work.
Since you are stilll in the program regedit you will see major keys listed in the left pane and these keys have a plus sign in front of them. These plus signs are used for navigation downward.

Step 1- Navigate using the plus to through the following keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Network Logon
Step 2- Once you have reached the logon folder click it to open and it will display its contents in the right pane.
Step 3- Click edit up top and click new and then DWORD value
Step 4- Once Dword value is created in right pane it will be highlighted for naming. Type in MustBeValidated Note: no spaces just as shown!
Step 5- Now right click the new Dword and select modify.
Step 6- Change the value data to 1 and click OK
Step 7- Now use the minus signs to collapse the registry leg in the left pane.
Step 8- Click the registry item up top and click exit.

Thats it. Next time you start your computer you will not be able to cancel or escape through the log on.

Hope that helps. Let us know.

PS: If all goes well you can delete the 911backup.reg file from your desktop.

[John-the-Teacher]

Thanks for your help. I meet new people everyday. [that is, I forget fast].

[John-the-Teacher]

For Ridgerunr and Cowboy622

I have been out of touch but other wise, I tried both suggestions on removing the 'cancel' as a another means to get into the system. Question. When I processed the information that Cowboy622 gave, I ended up with four [4] Dword items [Default; primaryprovider;username;MustBeValidated] Shouldn't those first three be removed, or somethng?

Any how, so far it does not work.

[Junker]

HI, I'm not totally sure of this, but I believe that if you do a 'find' for *.pwd (password files) and send 'em to the recycle bin (in case you might need to restore) then reboot, you should find the prompt gone...

[Cowboy622]

Two things. Does the Mustbevalidated Dword have a value of 1? If yes and it still doesn't work, I'd go a head and delete the other three and see if it works. If not, you can always put them back or restore the registry to a date before you deleted them. Just make a note of the exact items names and values so you can manuelly put the back. Keep in mind that I just posted what Davey7549 and Tony Klein had said before. I have no personal knowledge on the subject but this post solved the same problem for someone else who wanted to make sure anyone using the computer knew the password and couldn't just hit escape to bypass the logon screen. Good luck.

If you delete the three and it doesn't help, you boot to the command prompt and type scanreg /restore and pick a date from before you deleted them to restore the registry. (note the space between scanreg and /restore)

[John-the-Teacher]

Thanks for the reply. I will do that. Just wanted to make sure some else had the same idea, before I made any changes.