Enable Classic Logon Screen in Windows 7 Home Basic & Home Premium

Enable Classic Logon Screen in Windows 7 Home Basic & Home Premium

If you want to enable the classic logon screen in Windows 7 Home/premium, you will need to modify a registry key, because Home does not include the Local Security Policy Manager.

Download registry file to enable classic logon screen in Windows 7

You can also do this manually.

1. Click on start and enter regedit.exe into the search field and click on the item that appears
2. Uncollapse the registry keys: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
3. Double-click on “dontdisplaylastusername” in the right pane and then modify the value to “1″ to enable this option and hide the usernames of the last logged on users.

Or copy this into a notepad, save it with the extension .reg and execute it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
 “dontdisplaylastusername”=dword:00000001