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11-30-2007
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| Guest | Hide user but keep enabled for UAC 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 |
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12-01-2007
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| Administrator | 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 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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12-01-2007
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| Guest | Re: Hide user but keep enabled for UAC Thanks for the response. As I mentioned, I was able to use the .NET tool someone posted called "elevate" to do it without rebooting into safe mode. It sounds like there is no way to hide all the "admin" accounts from the welcome screen? The reason I ask is because I am using my machines as a "user" account, understanding that UAC should take care of all my 'admin' needs. Unfortunately, Having 2 "me"s show up at the welcome screen is just a tad bit annoying  Thanks! "brink" wrote: Quote: > > Mevi;530889 Wrote: Quote: > > 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 > > > -- > brink > > *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* > WWW.VISTAX64.COM (\"HTTP://WWW.VISTAX64.COM\") > *Please post feedback to help others.* > |
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