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How To Easily Disable Auto-Login Of Last User At Windows 8 Startup

by Fawad Mir on January 31, 2013
  • Windows
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Users Accounts are meant to provide a personal space to each user on a shared computer and therefore, a Windows User Account holds a lot of information related to the owner of that account including financial information, personal documents, passwords to email, social networking and communication accounts, browsing history and several logs. Therefore, if an unauthorized person finds a way of accessing someone else’s account, it can possibly have serious consequences for the account owner. So to be safe, most users protect their user accounts with a password. One annoyance with the login system in Windows 8 is that if there are multiple users added, the computer automatically boots up the account of the last user without asking for password, unless the user has set a PIN. While this is fine if only one person uses the computer, it can result in a breach of privacy in case of multiple users. User List Enabler for Windows 8 takes care of this issue by bringing up the user list at every system startup, allowing you to choose an account for login every time you boot up the computer. Read More

Win Lock Brings Windows 8 Style Lock & Login Screen To Windows 7

by Fawad Mir on January 06, 2012
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Even with the launch of Windows 8 looming on the horizon, there are still a lot of apps coming out that enable users to make Windows 7 look like Windows 8. Among other features and designs, the user, as well as the developer community, has been giving special attention to the lock and login screen of Windows 8. Since both, the lock and login screens, are rumored to be a lot different in the final version of Windows 8, than those included in the previous versions of Windows, people have been creating and downloading apps to get a taste of what to expect from the upcoming Windows release. Win Lock is another new open source addition to the list of utilities to make Windows 7 look like Windows 8. It replaces the default Windows 7 lock screen with the one from Windows 8, providing you with an alternative, and beautifying the appearance of your lock screen in Windows. Moreover, the application also allows you to set a custom Name, Password and Background for the lock screen. It even features the Windows 8 native clock which will be available on the lock screen. Read More

Windows 8 Start Tweaker: Change Metro Start Screen Background & Color

by Usman Javaid on September 22, 2011
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Just a few days back, we covered Windows 8 UI interface hack to change the background of login screen, start screen and right side bar panels. The tweak involves changing the RGBA color code values of uxtheme.dll file in System32 folder via Hex editor. Although, Windows 8 UI tweaking requires extra effort along with complete knowledge related to handling color Hex values and Hex offsets in a editor, you can change almost all the user interface elements in Hex Editor by editing the uxtheme library file. Today we came across a small yet powerful tool called Windows 8 Start Tweaker, which is a GUI based, portable application to change background color & image of login and Start Screen with a single click. Read More

Change Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Login Screen With Loginox

by Usman Javaid on August 25, 2011
  • Mac OS X
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In the past, we have covered a handful of tools to tweak with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion native utilities and UI elements; some worth noting tweaking applications are, Deeper 1.4 (tweaks with Mac Lion native utilities), Docker (customizes system dock), Lauchpad-control (hides Launchpad applications), Reverse Scroller (customizes Mac Lion default scrolling behavior), and Lion Tweaks (toggles Mac Lions exclusive features On/Off). Today we discovered Loginox, which lets you tweak with Mac OS X Lion login screen. Since Mac OS X Lion login screen is a complete rewrite of Mac Snow Leopard login screen, many tweaks contrived for previous versions of Mac doesn’t work on Mac OS X Lion. Loginox not only replaces the default background of Mac OS X Lion login screen with specified background image but allows you to change the Apple logo as well. Read More

FastLogon Skips Windows Login And Locks Your PC

by Nakodari on November 04, 2010
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Last year we wrote a guide on automatically logging and locking your PC. We tested it on Windows 7 but it required some tedious steps. If you have multiple PCs then following that guide on each one of them can be irksome. AddictiveTips reader, JM felt the same way and created a simple automated installer to install it without touching the registry or manually copying files. Read More

Stuck On Windows 7 Login Welcome Screen? [Quick Fix]

by Nakodari on January 21, 2010
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Does your computer hang up on the welcome screen for a long time? According to Microsoft knowledge base article if you set a solid color background instead of a picture or a wallpaper, your system will hang for 30 seconds during the logon process. It is a limited yet huge problem. Read More
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