Friday 6 May 2011

How to Hide User Accounts from the Welcome Screen in Windows 7 and Vista

Tto hide additional user accounts on Windows & Logon Use Regedit, also works for Vista

Hide User Accounts in windows Vista and Windows 7

at Run type regedit


Once in regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon



In the left panel, right click on Winlogon and click New and click Key.



Type SpecialAccounts and press Enter


In the left panel, right click on SpecialAccounts and click New and click Key.


Type UserList and press Enter.


In right panel of UserList, right click on a empty area and click New then click DWORD (32bit) Value.



Type in the name of the user account that you want to hide and press Enter.eg: Everyday Account.



In the right panel, right click on the user account name and click Modify.



To hide the user account – Type 0 and click OK. (number zero not the letter)

Whenever you want to use the account just unhide the it by typing 1 instead of zero.

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