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Actually, I think it's just that the shutdown dialog doesn't read the ginaDLL tweak in the registry, assuming you're using that. Because regardless of the gina you use, that box is always the same. Always. UNLESS you totally replace GINA in which case it's the changed version.

Has anyone gotten it to work with Ubuntu 7? there's no indication on their supported guest OS page whether or not it works, so I'll assume for now the answer is no, which is a bummer. I had a BSOD and USB messup with a previous version, but it appears that's been fixed. So far, I like this. However, they need a converter, to change MS VHDs to their type, since all my virtual hard disks are .vhd right now.

So, it's basically a DLL, only with a different name? OK. Thanks.

Or, if it's Windows XP MCE or Professional, you don't even need to go into safe mode to try the administrator and guest accounts. Some people make it pretty easy to take control of their system. It's always fun if you can access the Administrator account to make a new account and call it HaHa and set the background to a picture of the owner of the targeted computer and then to have it log on automatically, and then forbid them from logging off or shutting down (by editing their policies). Or, to set the logon notice to say "Your computer has been broken into. Consider changing the Administrator password." Of course, restarting might get you in trouble with the BIOS password. I always rename the Administrator and Guest accounts (And not to Admin or Boss or Control or something like that. More like to ZX681 and C87Y or something random). This can be done from group policy. So much fun to be had... Another thing if you can break into their Administrator account and if they are using EFS, then if you reset their password, they loose all EFS files. Which really sucks for them. Yes, that is correct but what length of time do you want to spend getting into a system encrypted with SafeGuard Easy? For each incorrectly entered password the length of time until the login appears again is exponential. The user ID or password incorrectly and you will wait an hour after the 4th missed attempt. Now it you want to try and crack AES-256 you could access it directly. If you put the drive in another machine windows will recognize it as a RAW partition. Read it with a disk editor and you get the encrypted data from end to end. Now if it is incorrectly configured it could be made easier by giving you one piece of the puzzle (login ID) or using XOR encryption instead. So yes while it would eventually be possible to get the data from the drive, could you do it in a reasonably practical length of time. Good point. What I was trying to say is that you can never completely trust that your system will never be broken into. It's just that it's possible, and that physical security is important, too. After all, even if they can't get in, neither can you if they have it. Another related tip would be to set the account lockout policy, so that if people enter the wrong logon password too many times, then the targeted account gets locked out for as long as you set, or until an Administrator unlocks it.

Aha! I figured it out. A lot of the dialogs are in C:/WINDOWS/System32/loginw32.exe. The rest are in a somewhat hard to find folder, C:/WINDOWS/system32/nls/ENGLISH/nwginar.dll and loginw32.rll in the same folder. Yes, RLL, though I have no idea what the RLL extension is supposed to be. But whatever it is, ResHacker can open and save it, so it works.

By "The Login Screen" you mean the Welcome Screen where you click on your username, right? Does it say "Logged on" or "# programs" in blue letters under your name when this happens? If so, you probably have your screensaver set to show the welcome screen after it wakes up. Do what bonestonne said, and see if that helps. If this happens when returning from hibernate, look in the Power options (Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Power Options) and look to see whether or not there is a checked box that says "Show welcome screen when returning from Hibernate or Standby" or something like that. Finally, see whether there's a group policy mandating that you show the welcome screen after a hibernate, sleep or screensaver. (GPEDIT.MSC > Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Display; make sure that Password Protect the Screen Saver is set to Not Configured or to Disabled; then go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management; make sure that "Prompt for Password on resume from hibernate/suspend" is disabled or not configured.) Two comments: I recommend that if this computer will be used in public places, I.E. it's a laptop, that you disable the welcome screen and use the classic logon, as it's safer. Also, when you leave your computer for an extended period of time and it's accessible to others, you should lock it or show the welcome screen by pressing WinLogo+L, so that others can't mess with your stuff. I swear I just answered something like this yesterday. Whatever.

Well, I don't know for sure, but maybe you should look at the BIOS settings and see if USB drive is higher on the boot list than the hard drive. If it is, then it's possible the computer's trying to boot from the USB device.

It's probably too late, but you might want to check this out. Since you said you're done with school, where's that paper?

Yeah, IE is a web developer's worst enemy. If you hate them bad enough, you may want to check this out; you can even make money. School gets out for me this week. I can't wait, but I wish there were another month sometimes because there is soooooo much to do at the end of the school year. At least I still have a 4.0 so far.

Can't you set this through the Audit Policies in local security policies? I don't remember how, but I think it can be done. Google it.

Ha! What do those look like? I call it a laptop even though I never put it on my lap. Most people I know call them laptops. The computer companies often call them notebooks. I think they should be called portable computers, but who wants to say all that instead of just laptop? I learned that the hard way. Thing is I fried the computer, too, because I tried to take it with water.

Ha! What do those look like? I call it a laptop even though I never put it on my lap. Most people I know call them laptops. The computer companies often call them notebooks. I think they should be called portable computers, but who wants to say all that instead of just laptop? I learned that the hard way. Thing is I fried the computer, too, because I tried to take it with water.

Look at the screenshot he links to as his final version. He reshacked a bitmap in System Properties to replace the windows flag in a monitor with his own image.

Yep, the "Thumb Drive" really cracks me up.... I wish I had one of those. jaclaz Me too!

Nice I have a quick comment about screen-shots though. JPG is the worst format for screenshots. It makes them lossy and they turn out fuzzy and hard to see. GIF is better, but still has issues with showing all the colors. BMP is the best, but they're huge, so I would recommend that you use PNG whenever possible.

Have you read all of this?

Welllllll.... I guess those are very literal interpretations of the names. Very good work finding those. I've heard that before, but I still think USB drive isn't specific enough; as I stated earlier, there are many kinds of USB Drives. None the less, if someone just blurted out "where's my USB drive," I would think flash drive, not a hard drive with a USB connector or something like that. -------------- It appears that so far, (USB) Flash Drive has won.

About Reshack. For one, you can mess up your computer if you aren't careful. But MS does make it hard to do so. To replace a file with a reshacked version, you will need to boot into safe mode to replace it, or else Windows File Protection will replace your version with the new one. I opened up sysdm.cpl and found the bitmap for the windows logo, but the DELL logo, or whatever it is on your computer was not there. I verified that it is indeed OEMLOGO.BMP, in C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32. Also, you can open that window by pressing Win+Pause(Break)

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's not reshack this time. I had just read about how to do this literally the site I was at before I clicked the MSFN bookmark. The instructions are here. It should be OEM logo.bmp in C:/WINDOWS/system32.

No! Not a subdirectory. A subdomain. Like this: File is in http://www.example.com I want to include that ^ file in a file that is at http://something.example.com. Not www.example.com/something, but http://something.example.com. I don't think it'll work. And reloading the page doesn't make the links go away.

Does it log you off after 30-60 seconds, or 30-60 seconds of not touching anything? What is your screensaver set to? If you have password protect set for your screensaver, and you have it set to 1 minute, and you use the welcome screen instead of the Windows 2000 style logon box, then you will shown the welcome screen after a few minutes. When you get "logged off", look at the welcome screen under your name. Does it say "Logged On" or "# Programs" in blue underlined letters? If so, then the screensaver is probably the issue.

Yeah, when people just say "USB" that tells me nothing. There are hundreds of thousands of USB devices out there. For cameras, cell phones, printers, hard drives, media card readers, graphing calculators, scanners, floppy readers, mice, keyboards - many, many things that are "USB". USB Mass Storage Device is a bit better, but my camera shows up as a USB Mass Storage Device when I plug it in, because it's connected by USB and it's got an SD card which is a Mass Storage Device. I see lots of people who wear them on a lanyard. The dad of one of my friends calls it "Geek bling" when you wear a flash drive around your neck.

If you go with Virtual PC, check this out. Basically, MS provides free images of Windows XP Professional. It's supposed to be for web developers to test pages with IE 7 and IE 6, but it works great for this sort of poking around with things. the downside is the images expire, but if they didn't do that, then people would abuse this.