Are there any other ways to be prompted for a login name/pass?

[Penman]

Is there any key you can hold down on startup to W2K that will disable auto logon and ask for a username/pass or do you have to use the users control panel?

Just a general query it'd be handy to be able to login as admin that little bit faster!

[Miq]

I know with nt you can hold the shift key to force the logon screen to come up. May wanna see if that works with 2000 also.

[Scooter]

You cannot force disable the Win2k logon screen with ANY keystroke. The only way to disable it is to use the "The computer assumes that this user is always logged on" option in the user settings in control panel. The only other way to do it would be to use a smart card.

[flyboy747]

According to the great and wonderful Microsoft....

"NOTE: To bypass the AutoAdminLogon process, and to log on as a different user, hold down the SHIFT key after you log off or after Windows restarts."


That was taken from their support page telling how to set up auto-logon.

Hope that helps!

[Scooter]

like... duh...

i answered the question too early in the morning... I understand it now.

I thought he wanted to disable the logon screen to not log in at all and go strait into windows without a logon...

yea... um... ahem... what he said... hold down shift lol

[Penman]

Cheers peeps it works great, even doesn't change the auto logon feature so I just have to shut down once I'm done

[ShadowKing]

That is all fine and dandy, but there may be a better solution to your problem...

If you are just logging on as admin to perform an administrative task, try "RunAs"

Hold down Shift and Right click on a .exe or an administrative tool. Select "Run As..."
Now that process can impersonate an administrative user. It is A LOT faster than loggin off and then logging back on.

There is also a runas.exe command line tool...