"Andrew McLaren" <andrew@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "James0" <not@xxxxxx> wrote ... Quote:
>> In Windows XP you could "hide" user accounts from the welcome screen by
>> editing the registry. I would like to do this in Vista. I do not want
>> to
>
> Hi James,
>
> Run Regedit and create the following key:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
>
> ("Winlogon" already exists, you need to create the "SpecialAccounts" and
> "UserList" keys).
>
> Under UserList key, add a REG_DWORD value with the name of the user
> account you wish to hide (eg "fsmith", "sqlservice" or whatever). Give it
> the value of 0, to hide the user from the logon screen. To make the user
> visible again, set the value to 1, or delete their name altogether from
> the key.
>
> When you reboot, the user will no longer appear on the logon welcome
> screen.
>
> The SpecialAccounts and UserList keys already exist in XP, by default. For
> some reason they were removed from the default registry in Vista - but
> they still work, once you create them by hand.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
> Thanks,
I wasn't sure about adding the keys since they didn't exist.
Thanks again and have a good day!