[dba-Tech] Ctrl-Alt-Del

Steve,

>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.

A habit to go broke by :-) .

PB

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Steve Erbach wrote:
> 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
>>     
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