Ok, in previous Windows versions I always activated Secure Attention Sequence in the past on OTS elevation to have users press CTRL-ALT-DEL on Admin prompt for security reasons. I would like to bring a problem to everyone’s attention and if some of you think it is a bad idea to use SAS, well speak up.
; Secure Attention Sequence on OTS elevation in gpedit
;Computer
; Administrative Templates
; Windows Components
; Credential User Interface
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\CredUI]
“EnableSecureCredentialPrompting”=dword:00000001 ; replace 1 with 0 to deactivate
However, with Windows 10 AU (don’t know about previous versions), if you do that, the prompt often stay hidden behind other Windows instead of coming in the front, so it leaves the impression that the computer froze. You need to press ALT-TAB or do something else like a CTRL-ALT-DEL to make it appear. Anybody else experienced that issue? Maybe it does the same thing in Windows 8 if the prompt is presented with the new style of Windows too but I don’t know. One thing for sure, it doesn’t do that in Windows 7.