Windows 98 Alternate Login Menu

190221 · Jun 26, 2016

I have an old windows 98 second editon laptop, (just for fun, i have newer computers) and i recently reinstalled the OS. before it was a compaq OEM install (i think), but i just used a retail CD. on the OEM OS, it had a login menu where you clicked your username and typed your password, rather than typing both. This isn't like the windows xp or later login, where it took up the whole screen, it was just a little box. it loaded a background before it appeared. This may have been an oem thing from the compaq 1260. Just to clarify, you clicked your username instead of typing it. Any possible name for this or download link would be appreciated.

Chicano · Jun 30, 2016

There is a registry edition that makes the last user name to always show on the Logon Screen... see the regedit for Windows 98... it's for hiding the last user name in the Logon Screen... just do the opposite: the value data is 1 to hide and 0 shoule make it show.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1/

190221 · Jun 30, 2016

Chicano :

no, this doesn't work. it still shows the normal logon box. I understand what you are saying, this is an option to leave the name of the last user logged on in the username field. The thing im looking for you clicked the username and typed the password.

Chicano · Jun 30, 2016

Try this registry edition... it should show the user name... it's not clear if the password space shows or you bring it up but this seems obvious if the point is to copy the Win XP logon screen.

http://www.liutilities.com/products/registrybooster/tweaklibrary/tweaks/10629/

190221 · Jun 30, 2016

I tried the registry edition...it didn't change anything. I'll try to draw a picture of what this login box looks like.

190221 · Jun 30, 2016

Here's a link to a sketch of it (sorry it wont load the image with the img tool in this text box). note that a background would have loaded before the box appears
http://prnt.sc/bnbcoo

It's beautiful isn't it?

Chicano · Jul 2, 2016

190221 :

That's the regular logon screen isn't it? the only diference is the last user name is kept and that would be done with a simple registry edition or security policies setting in Windows XP... can't recall much about 98 or if it has security policies, but at least the last registry edition I linked before should have done it.

190221 · Jul 2, 2016

Chicano :

If you are suggesting you gave two links the second link isn't there. no, its not the normal login box. the normal one has a spot for you to type your username and type your password. and its more of a sideways rectangle. I think we are on the same page, but in different books. P.S. the sketch of the one I'm looking for would be more colorful IRL.

Chicano · Jul 2, 2016

You can't see the linutilities.com link? http://www.liutilities.com/products/registrybooster/tweaklibrary/tweaks/10629/

See searching at google images for: "Windows 98SE Logon Client" this brings up the type of logon box you describe... the normal logon rectangle is found with "Windows 98SE Logon Screen"... If that's the logon box type you had before(?).. Seems to me, as the search result indicates, it's a Network Logon client, so was your previous Windows 98 ever connected to a newtork?..

190221 · Jul 2, 2016

Yes! that's exactly what im looking for. actually, no. it wasn't connected to a network, originally. I think i got it from here, thanks.

Chicano · Jul 3, 2016

Might be easy adding a netword client to Windows 98SE logon. Check these pages about installing DSClient that adds a network client to your Windows logon.

Installing DSCLIENT for Windows 9x
https://www.imss.caltech.edu/node/414

Dsclient.exe connects Windows 9x/NT PCs to Active Directory
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/dsclientexe-connects-windows-9x-nt-pcs-to-active-directory/

DS Client
How Windows 98 Active Directory Client Extension uses Active Directory site information
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/197387-46-

How Windows 98 Active Directory Client Extension uses Active Directory site information
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/249841

gabelossus · Aug 26, 2016

Stop. I know exactly what this guy is talking about. It looks like this, right? Picture: http://img.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/technet/images/archive/win98/reskit/part3/wrk0z51.gif

This was called Microsoft Family Logon. If you go to Control Panel, then Network Settings, in the field where it lists all your devices, add a new one. Select Microsoft, then select Microsoft Family Logon. Hit Ok, and in the dropdown that says "Windows Logon" or something like that, select Microsoft Family Logon and hit ok on everything. It might ask you for the Windows 98 cd, just redirect it to C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS.

gabelossus · Aug 26, 2016

I had your same problem with not remembering what is was called. I did this on my Windows ME computer, because when I installed Windows ME I was like "What the heck? What happened to the box where you click your username and type the password?"

Yeah anyway it was Microsoft Family Logon and Microsoft included with Internet Explorer 4.0. As long as you have Internet Explorer 4 or higher you'll be able to do this.

190221 · Jan 2, 2017

yeah thats it.

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