I wanted a Windows XP client which was not a member of the domain to have the same look and feel as the rest of the domain member clients. Part of creating this effect was to enable the Ctrl-Alt-Del to login prompt at startup.

In order to enable the Ctrl-Alt-Del prompt at startup in Windows XP you need to set or create the DWORD registry entry “DisableCAD” to 0.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
DisableCAD = “0″

You can download this registry file to set this for you.
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See more information at Microsoft Technet.


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