How to boot into Login screen after Windows 8.1 starts?

EShirou

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My issue is I have two users on my pc, after I reset(reboot) the pc on one user or shutdown, windows 8.1 automatically boots to that last user that was logged in and it's very bad behavior that I hate. I want to tweak it in a way so after i reboot or shutdown my pc on one user, and after I turn it back on or it reboots I want for Windows 8.1 to display me a login screen where I can click on a user with which I want to login. How can I make it to work like this? (also I want it so after that reboot and that login screen will be displayed the last user that was logged on will not be logged on still so I won't end up with two users logged on at the same time...)

Someone has any idea is something like this possible? It's strange to me that a normal behaviour like this is so messed up over here :/
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Build by myself
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2300
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
    Memory
    Kingston HyperX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 4GB @ 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Palit nVIDIA GTS 450
    Sound Card
    Build in on motherboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG L1918S and BenQ FP72G+D
    Screen Resolution
    each monitor has 1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Seagate ST3500418AS (465 GB)
    PSU
    Chieftec and I don't remember how many W, either 500 or 550W

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.0 x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelite C55D-A Laptop
    CPU
    AMD EI 1200
    Memory
    4 gb DDR3
    Graphics Card(s)
    Raedon 340 MB dedicated Ram
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Built in
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    640 GB (spinner) Sata II
    Keyboard
    Built in
    Mouse
    Touch pad
Yep, this is it, thanks, but some of them seems either wonky (like the regedit one) or not working at all (like the winaero soft) but i googled for the winaero guy and came to what I believe is his website where he said about one method using gpedit, this one seems to be easy to do because you make a script that executes after each logoff and changes the registry value ^^

Just the name of the script must be C:\Windows\System32\reg.exe and the parameters:
add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\UserSwitch /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

I added it to one user on my machine and it works on all of them, dunno if it has something to do with them having admin privileges as well.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Build by myself
    CPU
    Intel Core i5-2300
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
    Memory
    Kingston HyperX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 4GB @ 1600 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Palit nVIDIA GTS 450
    Sound Card
    Build in on motherboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG L1918S and BenQ FP72G+D
    Screen Resolution
    each monitor has 1280x1024
    Hard Drives
    Seagate ST3500418AS (465 GB)
    PSU
    Chieftec and I don't remember how many W, either 500 or 550W
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