>Recently, I had a chance to see one of my friend's Laptop on which Win Nt 4.0 is installed..
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>Each and everytime we start system.. it shows Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Log on..
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>Is there a way to stop it.. cause its very irritating on a single user machine...

Besides reliability and performance NT differs from others with security. NT never lets you in without Ctrl+Alt+Del. NT never lets you in if you are not a registered user even on a single machine. That means you cannot log on to a system by just pressing ESC. You should always have a valid username and password. So pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del pays for just one extra press. You could break a hardware security (system Password) by disabling it with jumpers or getting the harddisk on to another computer. But in case of NT this wouldn't work also. Up to today I could break into a Novell system without Supervisor password but supervisor privileges ! I can't do that on NT. If you don't want security and pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del than use another op.sys ie: best similar could be Win95 (and maybe the only alternative for a VFP programmer). By the way I didn't have yet time to mail copy prot. technics. It's a long subject and I'll send it ASAP. Sorry for that.
Cetin