[dba-Tech] Ctrl-Alt-Del

John,

Kids?  You bet, three of them.  One is the world's loudest seven-year-old girl.

As you pointed out to Andrew,  this is more habit than anything.  I
could certainly have adjusted with no problem; but I got to searching
for the option to require Ctrl-Alt-Del and I got miffed that I
couldn't find it.  The Help is obviously wrong.  So I just looked and
looked until I found it.  Now I've got it and I ain't a gonna give it
up!  And soon I'll have every little utility installed that I want so
that I can Ghost the whole schmeer onto my "old" C: drive and at least
have some sort of backup.

It isn't on a doman.  I believe I mentioned that I've been dabbling
with Windows Server 2003...but I only installed the Standard edition
so there's no domain.  I'm also dabbling with SQL Server 2005.  That's
the primary reason for me to reformat one of my drives and re-install
everything.  I had installed the beta of SS2005 and then munged up the
un-install so that SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager didn't work
right and neither did Visual Studio .NET 2003.  Now they all work
happily together on the one box.

Steve Erbach
http://TheTownCrank.blogspot.com


On 2/21/06, John Bartow <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> LOL! You have kids don't you? :-)))
>
> OK, now I just had to use the damned ctrl-alt-del to get back in because I
> forgot to turn it back off :-O
>
> I'm wondering because this here tank is up to speed with all the MS security
> updates and it worked for me so it does seem to suggest there is a
> difference for some reason. You had a local policy to not display the
> Ctrl-Alt-Del and I had a local policy to display it. Now, I've never changed
> it on my machine...
> ;o)
>
> Actually the other burning question is do you have it set up in a domain?
> Why? Because the only PCs I've set up that have the ctrl-alt-del turned on
> by default are those connected to a W2x domain server. All the stand alone
> or workgroup based WinXP PCs had the cutesy little flowers and crap on the
> login screen.
>
> And Steve, you think this is irritating crap?! I just spent the last half a
> day trying to get my Nero Burning Rom to work again. It had been working and
> all I did was change the Nero setup to add InCD. I had to remove the entire
> friggin thing and then use their "cleaners" to get everything tidy again,
> download a 100+ minor upgrade and install it. All the while rebooting about
> a million friggin times! Who was that recommended Nero 7?!
>
> Here's hoping your tomorrow is better than today!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:50 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Ctrl-Alt-Del
>
> John,
>
> "This isn't Arguments.  This is Abuse."  "Oh!  So sorry!"  [slam] "Stupid
> git!"
>
> Yes, there is a "Use the Welcome Screen" option.  What I was saying was that
> un-checking it did NOT require me to type Ctrl-Alt-Del.  I only just found
> the Local Policy option for Ctrl-Alt-Del 30 minutes ago.
>
> I still only have SystemWorks 2003.  I've gotten six copies from Ebay for an
> average of $8 or $9 each so I'm not impelled to upgrade.
>
> Anyway, I got Ctrl-Alt-Del back.  Very little left to do to have my "new"
> drive C: up to snuff with everything I want installed on it.
>
> Steve Erbach