20th February 2001

Gretchen's using Mr. Bigglesworth now that Oogie Boogie has taken over my life. Having two PCs in this house makes for a peaceful household. I use one, she uses another, and Sprocket simply gnaws his rawhide. So why do we need a "Log Off User" option in the Start Menu? We don't. You might not either. Open your Registry Editor and navigate your way to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer" -- in the right-hand pane, create a new DWORD value and name it: "NoLogOff" (sans quotes). Double-left click the new attribute to give it a value of 1. Exit the editor, reboot, and you won't be bothered by that feature any longer. If you care to bring it back at some point in the future, just change that value to 0. But please lay off the rawhide in the meantime.