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**Brink** · 12-01-2007

Quote: Originally Posted by Mevi

Greetings all,

I have an admin account that I would like to hide from the welcome screen.
I followed the registry tweak described here:
User Account - Hide

Unfortunately when I did this, it hid the admin account from UAC too - that
made it a REAL pain to undo, because regedit wouldn't work, and runas wouldnt
launch it either. I had to download "elevate" to launch it via runas. Very
scary - I almost had to reinstall!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tahnks

Hi Mevi,

I updated the tutorial for this. You will need to boot into Safe Mode and then you will be able to unhide the Administrator account in the registry. This tutorial will show you how to get into Safe Mode. Just select it.

Advanced Boot Options

Shawn

12-01-2007	#2 (permalink)
Brink Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 26,021 posts	Re: Hide user but keep enabled for UAC Quote: Originally Posted by Mevi Greetings all, I have an admin account that I would like to hide from the welcome screen. I followed the registry tweak described here: User Account - Hide Unfortunately when I did this, it hid the admin account from UAC too - that made it a REAL pain to undo, because regedit wouldn't work, and runas wouldnt launch it either. I had to download "elevate" to launch it via runas. Very scary - I almost had to reinstall! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tahnks Hi Mevi, I updated the tutorial for this. You will need to boot into Safe Mode and then you will be able to unhide the Administrator account in the registry. This tutorial will show you how to get into Safe Mode. Just select it. Advanced Boot Options Shawn
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