How do I remove "Smart Card" and "McAfee Password" icon from the logon

**bro67** · 27 Mar 2017

Jen812 said:

Hey Bro67,
thank you for your reply,
yep, its a work laptop and its a DELL Latitude 7270.
is there a way we can disable the smart card login? - i tried playing around with the registry but that caused me more problems then fix

You cannot disable Smart Card Login, since it is a work laptop and messing with the registry would report back to the IT group when your laptop connects to the domain and has those logs pulled for the Domain to keep track of any changes.

If you want to make changes on a laptop, I would suggest doing it with your own, not with the property of someone else.

**bro67** · 27 Mar 2017

f14tomcat said:

@Jen812
I found this. See if it will help. Does involve GPEDIT and policies. Possibly a BIOS mod, too.
Unable to Logon to Windows as it asks for a Smart Card that I have never Used ~ Hawkdive

They still would not be able to make those changes, since the connection to the domain will put back the GPO how it is on the Domain Manager.

**Jen812** · 28 Mar 2017

Hey @bro67,

I'm am the IT admin here - we don;t use Smart cards to login, and trying to disable it.

I've managed to remove the icon from left hand side - now just want to disable smart card at logon :).

Thanks

**f14tomcat** · 28 Mar 2017

bro67 said:

They still would not be able to make those changes, since the connection to the domain will put back the GPO how it is on the Domain Manager.

He is the IT guy, therefore the Domain Manager (human side). Only posted that for reference.

**Jen812** · 28 Mar 2017

Hey Guys,

Thanks for all your help but I don't think we can remove the smart card option, at the logon screen - unless the smart card is disabled.

How do I remove "Smart Card" and "McAfee Password" icon from the logon

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