How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon
Control-Alt-Delete (the secure attention sequence) has been well-known for invoking security options and Task Manager. Control-Alt-Delete also has historically been used for sign-in to prevent spoofing issues. Here is how to enable...
Method 1 of 2:
Using a Special Command
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Picture 1 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Press ⊞ Win+R. This opens the Run box. -
Picture 2 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Typenetplwiz
. Then press ↵ Enter. This will take you to an advanced control panel that allows you to customize user account settings. -
Picture 3 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Under the Advanced tab, select the checkbox "Require users to press Control-Alt-Delete". Then click Apply or OK. -
Picture 4 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Lock your computer. Press ⊞ Win+L. -
Picture 5 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Press Control+Alt+Delete to unlock your computer. On tablets without keyboards, press either ⊞ Win+Power or Power+Volume down.
Method 2 of 2:
Using the Security Policy Editor
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Picture 6 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Press ⊞ Win+R. This opens the Run box. -
Picture 7 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Typesecpol.msc
to open the security policy editor. Here, you will be able to manage all sorts of group policies and modify some registry keys without breaking your computer. -
Picture 8 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Select "Security options" under "Local policies". Then search for a policy named "Interactive logon: Do not require CTRL+ALT+DEL". -
Picture 9 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Right click on the policy, then choose Properties. You can also double click to open the properties. -
Picture 10 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Choose the "Disabled" radio box. Then click Apply or OK. Once doing that, you will not be able to use thenetplwiz
command. You will have to choose "Enabled" in these properties to disable Control-Alt-Delete. -
Picture 11 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Lock your computer. Press ⊞ Win+L. -
Picture 12 of How to Enable Control‐Alt‐Delete on Logon Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to unlock your computer. On tablets without keyboards, press either ⊞ Win+Power or Power+Volume down.
Update 04 March 2020
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