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Windows Vista: Require users to press Ctrl+alt+del to login | 4 Comments

Posted in Snippets on 29th November 2007, 5:31 pm by

Just a note for myself as I’m bound to forget this it’s very hidden away.

Go to start type “netplwiz” in the search. Click the advanced tab and tick “Require users to press Ctrl+alt+delete”

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  • http://mattwilcox.net Matt Wilcox

    OK you have my curiosity piqued with your enigmatic personal note. Why force that, and when force that?

    *places corn-cob pipe to mouth and ponders*

    The game is afoot.

  • http://muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart Colville

    @Matt: No big reason. Mainly for the security of desktops used for testing.

  • Enitan

    Thanks so much for this piece.av been trying to fix that for a long time now that i couldn’t but this worked.

  • Marius

    And I learned that “netplwiz” and “control userpasswords2″ launch the same applet. Kudos.

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

Ubuntu: add-apt-repository: command not found|(3)

When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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