How to get rid of Other User and smart card user on login screen?

How do I get rid of the smart card login and the Other user on the computer login screen?

Baeolophus said:

How do I get rid of the smart card login and the Other user on the computer login screen?

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1) is this a domain joined pc? if so i would advise against trying to make any reg/gp mods...

2) Disable SC:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Dword - "ScForceOption" value "0"
Dword - "SmartCardRequired" value "0"

3) Hide Other User:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Dword = "Other User" (fyi, can name this the EXACT name of any user you want to hide from the logon screen) value "0"

*May need to create some of the keys or values

Enable or Disable Don't Display Last Signed-in User on Sign-in Screen in Windows 11

"Other user" is probably defaultuser0, leftover in the logon history from having run OOBE Setup.

garlin said:

Enable or Disable Don't Display Last Signed-in User on Sign-in Screen in Windows 11

"Other user" is probably defaultuser0, leftover in the logon history from having run OOBE Setup.

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I think, you are right on the money with that. Is there something I can do to manually delete entries in that logon history?

Why do I think you are right about that? It’s because I used sysprep.exe on that computer, as suggested by @gunrunnerjohn in a thread about 26100.5074 no longer being able to connect to another computer on the network. That created an OOBE setup.

I don't think you should be trying to delete the logon history.

Instead decide if no displaying recent logons is the better policy for security reasons, because you're going to end up hard-coding a fix which will unintentionally bite you later (because you forgot about it).