Enable/Disable Saving Last Username Logged On at Startup

There is a registry key that controls whether the username is saved at startup on the login screen.

1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE

then Microsoft
then Windows
then Current Version
then Policies
then System


3. Double click the “dontdisplaylastusername” value (or create the DWORD type value if it doesn’t exist).

If the value doesn’t exist, you can create it by right-clicking System and clicking New–>DWORD Value

4. Set the value to 1 to enable the username to be displayed.
Set the value to 0 to disable the username from being displayed.

5. Click OK and close out of REGEDIT.