Hide Domain Name on Logon Screen

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To remove the domain drop-down list from the logon screen and force users to use their full user principal name (UPN), perform these steps:

   1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).
   2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon registry subkey.
   3. From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD value.
   4. Enter a name of NoDomainUI and press Enter.
   5. Double-click the new value and set it to 1. Click OK.
   6. Reboot the machine.

The logon screen will no longer show a drop-down list for domains, and users will need to enter the full UPN to log on. Like abc@xyz.com

first you need to check that this OS is Windows 7 Home edition..... if this is home edition it will not support u windows Domain environment.

if this is Windows 7 Professional ...then...check this registry settings

Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon registry subkey.
From the Edit menu, select New, DWORD value.
Enter a name of NoDomainUI and press Enter.
Double-click the new value and set it to 1. Click OK.
Reboot the machine.

Thanks

Sunil Lidoria

Just to clarify.  He is logging into one domain, and you have his email pulling off a different domain?

I know that this is somewhat unorthodox, however, I hate dinking around in the registry if you really do not have to.

Simply launch the application with the credentials on the mail domain.  This would authenticate the user into the email domain and allow the user to get his email.

Just a suggestion.

The emails are routed to the domain where the laptop is connected to.  What i want to do is hide or change the logon screen.  Right now it says  mydomain\user  I want to change it to newdomain\user or just have user as he is worried that if he boots up his computer infornt of a client and his domain name doesn't show up on the screen.

I tried the suggestions above but that did not work.

any more suggestions?

MAG03

You also can handle this with GPO's

The safer route would be to just change the default logon domain to the new domain assuming that you can login to it using group policy(local is sufficient for this individual case).

Click on Start and type "gpedit.msc" (without quotes) in the Search box and hit Enter. Then, go to the below folder:

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\

In the right pane, double click on "Assign a default domain for logon" setting and then select Enabled option. Then, type the default logon domain in the given box under "Options" and then click on Apply and then OK. Then, close the Local Group Policy Editor window and reboot your system to see the changes.