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Monday, April 7, 2008

Hide The Last User Who Logged On

If your computer is used by more than one user, then you might be using the old NT way to login. One of the major drawbacks with this structure is that a person can identify the last user who logged on to the computer. Now in Windows if you are the administrator, you can hide the last person who logged on your computer. These are again changing the policies of your computer. Here is the process

  1. Go to Start –> Run –> gpedit.msc
  2. Go to Computer Configuration/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options.
  3. Look for Interactive Logon : Do not display last username, and enable that option.
  4. Next time when you will logon, you will see the User and Password fields as blank.
This tip is useful in case you don’t want others to know that who else used this computer, and if in case you want to know who used it, then you might not like to use it.

Disable The Auto Complete Feature In Internet Explorer

Are you the only one to use your computer? What if you need to share your computer for even few minutes to another person. He might just access his mail and also get to know some information through Auto Complete forms that you don't want to share. In that case what can you do?
Giving him a different web browser is a good option, but what if you use only I.E.? Then in that case you need to disable the Auto Complete Feature. Just follow these simple steps to do the same.

  1. Open I.E., and go to Tools and Internet Options.
  2. Go to the Contents tab and further go to Auto Complete option.
  3. Now choose from the variety of options given, Select the options for which you want to use this feature.

  1. Apart from that if you want to delete the Form data then go to General tab, Click delete in Browsing History and then click Delete forms. This will delete all the saved information for the forms.
This can be useful otherwise as well. If you have anything more to say, Do Comment.