> >Recently, I had a chance to see one of my friend's Laptop on which Win Nt > 4.0 is installed.. > > > >Each and everytime we start system.. it shows Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Log > on.. > > > >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 > Sorry to dissapoint you guys about bullet-proof security of WinNT, but MICROSOFT has released Windows NT Resource Kit, where is program that removes this login screen..... And besides that, I found and tried small utility called NTFSDOS, that enables you to read Windows NT NTFS formatted harddisks under dos v. 6.22 or Win 95 and Win 3.11.... :-) Small, but great. Shareware version is read-only, for about $20 you get full write-able version. Could be found after followinf some links from page on Microsoft Web pages - Windows NT Web resources or so. If anyone interested, I can dig it up. Dezider But, beside all of this I'm only great-full I use it; it's really operating system that I need. Stable, and running fast on good machine.