One Windows 8, multiple user accounts - Problem

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Hi! I just got Windows 8 Pro, activated it with a proper key.

Multiple user account configured. And I have two problems:

- If I shutdown (or restart) the pc from an account, then when the pc get turned on, windows want to login into that account automatically (it ask for the password). How do I disable this behavior?

- The other thing is, when I logout from an account, the lockscreen shows the default picture with that tower. How do I change this image?

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- If I shutdown (or restart) the pc from an account, then when the pc get turned on, windows want to login into that account automatically (it ask for the password). How do I disable this behavior?

so you want to log in with out a password? i believe the only way of doing that is to set your account as a local account

BUT if you want to online account (is that what they are calling it?) and you want to log-in easly i think the best way is to setup a password pin and just make the pin 1234... you dont even have to hit enter and you will log in.

im not sure with question two, but i would also like to know

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  On 25/08/2012 at 09:55, nyolc8 said:
- The other thing is, when I logout from an account, the lockscreen shows the default picture with that tower. How do I change this image?

Start > Click on user name > Change account picture > Lock screen.

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  On 25/08/2012 at 10:21, lcg said:

Start > Click on user name > Change account picture > Lock screen.

when you have more than one account it seams to default back to the tower background.

i theory it should show the lock screen that the last used user has selected.

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  On 25/08/2012 at 10:12, dafin0 said:

so you want to log in with out a password? i believe the only way of doing that is to set your account as a local account

BUT if you want to online account (is that what they are calling it?) and you want to log-in easly i think the best way is to setup a password pin and just make the pin 1234... you dont even have to hit enter and you will log in.

im not sure with question two, but i would also like to know

No I want to get the user selection screen when I turn on the computer. Now I get the "enter password" screen for the user who turned off the computer.

I managed to change the default lock screen, needed to go to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData\S-1-5-18\ReadOnly\LockScreen_Z\" and replaced the picture there, then added permission to "system" to read it. :)

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  On 25/08/2012 at 10:35, dafin0 said:

when you have more than one account it seams to default back to the tower background.

i theory it should show the lock screen that the last used user has selected.

No in theory it should shows the default one, it's like that per design (and for good reasons).

To set the default lock screen, open Group Policy Edit, locate to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon. Enable the policy ?Always use custom login background? and see the result.

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  On 25/08/2012 at 13:08, Anthonyd said:

No in theory it should shows the default one, it's like that per design (and for good reasons).

To set the default lock screen, open Group Policy Edit, locate to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon. Enable the policy ?Always use custom login background? and see the result.

I think this is related to the user selection screen background. (I just read the description of it)

I changed the default lockscreen background as I said before, but the other problem that I have is bigger...

So basically when I shutdown the computer, windows is not logging out the current user, it's just locks the user and then shutdowns the pc. I want to make it to log out the user completely and then shutdown the pc. Anyone knows how to get this?

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  On 25/08/2012 at 13:37, nyolc8 said:
So basically when I shutdown the computer, windows is not logging out the current user, it's just locks the user and then shutdowns the pc. I want to make it to log out the user completely and then shutdown the pc. Anyone knows how to get this?

When you shut down, the user is completely logged off. Windows just remembers the last logged in user and suspects that same user is also going to turn the computer on. I know it's an extra step, but simply click the little 'back' button on the left to go to the proper user selection screen.

Yes, it's a little bit annoying and kind of makes no sense ;)

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  On 25/08/2012 at 13:37, nyolc8 said:

I think this is related to the user selection screen background. (I just read the description of it)

I changed the default lockscreen background as I said before, but the other problem that I have is bigger...

So basically when I shutdown the computer, windows is not logging out the current user, it's just locks the user and then shutdowns the pc. I want to make it to log out the user completely and then shutdown the pc. Anyone knows how to get this?

Shutdown is actually hibernation whereas Restart is where it clean shuts down and reboots. You can try disabling hibernation and see if it helps. It will increase your boot time though.

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  On 25/08/2012 at 14:07, soulburner said:

... I know it's an extra step, but simply click the little 'back' button on the left to go to the proper user selection screen.

Yes, it's a little bit annoying and kind of makes no sense ;)

Well that sucks. Not for me, but for the rest of the family... :/ They'll hate this.

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  On 25/08/2012 at 14:35, nyolc8 said:

Well that sucks. Not for me, but for the rest of the family... :/ They'll hate this.

There used to be a Group Policy to not show last logged in user, been a while so not sure where it is but worth a quick search.

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To turn off the Lock Screen:

Win+R > gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalisation > Do not display the lock screen

To stop displaying the previous user:

Win+R > secpol.msc > Local Policies > Security Options > Interactive Logon Do Not Display Last User Name set to enabled.

The only thing about this is though is that it will make you manually type in the Username & Password. Unlike how it would behave with Vista & 7.

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