hi, i just installed windows nt 4.0 workstation on my compaq armada 1700 for school and i was wondering if theres anyway to get rid of the CTRL + ALT + DEL to log on thingy? its rather annoying for me. please reply, thanks. Laptop : DELL Inspiron 7000, ATi Rage Pro 8MB, 256MB, PII 400Mhz, 40gb HDD, 15'' display. Desktop : AMD Athlon 1800+, 640MB SD-RAM, 80GB HDD, ATi Radeon 9200 SE 128MB.

No, it is there for security (the entire point of NT)

You should be able to bypass the log on by doing a bit of REG hacking see Http://cc1.jura.uni-sb.de/CC1-Support/Tips/TipWorld/WinNT/1998/WinNT-Tips-9801.htm Which has the following Solution Keeping in mind the usual warnings about making changes to the Registry, run RegEdit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon. Look in the right pane for AutoAdminLogon. If it's there, double-click it and change the value to 1. If it isn't there, choose Edit, New, String Value (NT 4.0) or Edit, String Value (NT 3.51). Name the new value AutoAdminLogon and give it the value 1. For the Auto log-on to work, you have to add your password. Look for DefaultPassword in the right pane. If it isn't there, create it by choosing Edit, New, String Value (4.0) or Edit, Add Value (3.51). Assign your password to it. Now you can close RegEdit and restart the computer. Note that if you click Start, Shut Down and select Close All Programs and Log On as a Different User, and then click Yes, the system will restart without offering to sign on a new user.

If the above only works ONE time, an autolog program is available: Mark Russinovich wrote one to do it and one is on the NT resource kit. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autologon.html Best