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What was the purpose of the Windows 98 "logon" screen?
2010-02-03, 10:32 PM #1
Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? You could set Windows 98 to display a dialog box asking for a username/pw when you started the computer, but you could simply click cancel and be entered into Windows. What purpose was there for the logon box?
一个大西瓜
2010-02-03, 10:42 PM #2
Did 98 have different users/settings? That would be a good reason..

Also IIRC you could make the password required .. because I remember setting up my Windows 98 pc needing a password to actually get on so my parents wouldn't find my porn.
2010-02-03, 10:47 PM #3
No, you could always hit cancel and bypass.

The login was more useful for network access. Although you could get to the desktop and do things locally, without logging in you couldn't access network resources.

True multi-user environments for Windows didn't really come until the NT kernel, which meant for the average consumer, Windows XP.
2010-02-04, 12:41 AM #4
nothing much more than each user having their own desktop image, icons, and IIRC the start menu was separate between users too
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2010-02-04, 3:34 AM #5
For corporate users, a registry hack was commonly used to force authentication with the server. So when a user would press ESC at the login screen, it would give an error message saying that you cannot use windows unless your username is validated by the server.

Other than that, it was pretty useless. However, surprisingly, merely displaying the prompt was a pretty good deterrent for a lot of people.
2010-02-04, 4:00 AM #6
Originally posted by Alco:
For corporate users, a registry hack was commonly used to force authentication with the server. So when a user would press ESC at the login screen, it would give an error message saying that you cannot use windows unless your username is validated by the server.


Nah that was easy to work around too.

http://epiclogon.ytmnd.com/

2010-02-04, 4:02 AM #7
I remember using that work-around at school before putting various games on all the computers
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2010-02-04, 5:12 AM #8
I just remember that it was for custom user settings... if you didn't use the user/pass then it put you on a default windows desktop
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2010-02-04, 9:04 AM #9
Originally posted by Alco:
However, surprisingly, merely displaying the prompt was a pretty good deterrent for a lot of people.


That's not too surprising. I went to a camp once where the front gate was held shut by a chain made mostly of padlocks... which was hooked onto a nail on the other side of the post. To someone who didn't know that , however, it would look like the gate was locked.
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2010-02-04, 10:05 AM #10
Oh yea, I remember now, I set up a BIOS password because the screen didn't work .. that's how I blocked people out.

I remember once my dad woke me up at like 4 in the morning because he wanted to go online and play a game and was pissed he couldn't get on haha.
2010-02-04, 10:20 AM #11
Back in the days when Novell was relevant...
2010-02-04, 1:21 PM #12
Originally posted by Squirrel King:
Oh yea, I remember now, I set up a BIOS password because the screen didn't work .. that's how I blocked people out.

I remember once my dad woke me up at like 4 in the morning because he wanted to go online and play a game and was pissed he couldn't get on haha.


"Play a game"
一个大西瓜
2010-02-04, 2:03 PM #13
In Win98 different users could have different resolution settings.

WinXP and beyond? NO!
2010-02-04, 2:06 PM #14
anybody who doesn't run their monitor at its native resolution is a scrublord.
2010-02-04, 2:06 PM #15
different users in winxp and beyond can have different dpi settings. it accomplishes the same thing while looking slightly less bad.
2010-02-04, 3:19 PM #16
Originally posted by Vin:
In Win98 different users could have different resolution settings.

WinXP and beyond? NO!

Why would that be useful?
2010-02-04, 3:23 PM #17
Originally posted by Tibby:
Why would that be useful?


Because some people think that running games at higher resolutions than the screen can support will be awesome. Or setting vsync off, so the game can render at more than (most of the time:) 60fps while the monitor only supports 60fps.

It makes you a 'leet gamer'
2010-02-04, 3:46 PM #18
Well then they're stupid and it should be locked at native.
Arguments with idiots who think they are better then me because they run CS:S at "200 FPS" are awesome.
2010-02-04, 3:57 PM #19
I would think that such arguments would become tiresome and repetitive very quickly and so very quickly lose their awesomeness :psyduck:
一个大西瓜
2010-02-04, 3:58 PM #20
That's why you gotta switch it up and laugh at how pissed and arrogant the other guy is.
2010-02-04, 4:21 PM #21
Originally posted by Jon`C:
different users in winxp and beyond can have different dpi settings. it accomplishes the same thing while looking slightly less bad.


Actually, no. Sure it works great for Windows and well-written software, but my grandmother has to run it at a lower resolution just because many of the programs she has to use at work do not scale at all with the DPI setting. It's goddamn annoying.
2010-02-04, 4:21 PM #22
Originally posted by Tibby:
Well then they're stupid and it should be locked at native.
Arguments with idiots who think they are better then me because they run CS:S at "200 FPS" are awesome.


I can run CS:S at like 290 FPS. Me > You
2010-02-04, 4:28 PM #23
Remember CRTs? That's why changing resolutions used to be more common than it is now, if I had to guess.
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