Windows 8: how to stop auto login
I got it working, but in an less than perfect way. This way Windows would ask you to type the username every time. Would still like it to show a welcome screen with icons you can click on every boot though.
Run secpol.msc > Local Policies > Security Options > Interactive logon: Do not display last user name > Enabled
How to Disable automatic Last User Login and always provide Select a User to Login in Windows 8 without downloading software or using any autorun scripts.
- open command prompt and enter/run netplwiz
- make sure the "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer" has a check mark. If not put a check mark in the box and hit apply
- in command prompt enter/run regedit
- goto: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\UserSwitch
- on the right side select the "Enabled" in the list and change the value data to 1 and then click OK
- right click on the "UserSwitch" on the left side and select "permissions"
- click on Advanced button
- in the Permission entries list highlight the one named "SYSTEM"
- click "Disable inheritance", and in the dialog box that appears, select "Convert inherited permissions into explicit permissions on this object"
- now double click on each Permission entries one at a time and un check "Full Control" and then click OK. You will not be able to do this for "Authenticated Users" and that is ok
- All permission entries should now be listed as "Read" under the Access category except the Authenticated Users
- click Apply
- click OK
- click OK
- restart Windows 8 and your done !
Shutdown in W8 is not really a full shutdown, its a form of hibernation...make a command shortcut to do a full shutdown should solve it...
Open notepad and copy this into it
shutdown /s /t 0
you can change the zero to 5 if you want a 5 second delay after you launch the command, zero is immediate shutdown.
save it to your desktop as "Windows full shutdown.cmd" (change the file extension from txt to cmd)
Use this command shortcut to shutdown the PC, hopefully this will allow you to pick a user on next boot.