HIDDEN ACCOUNT CREATION...?

[oc9ine]

Hi everyone,

I have winxp sp2. I want to create a User account which should be hidden. I
mean i do not want to show its name in Welcome screen and and its Documents
and Settings folder displayed in the Root folder of Explorer. I want to
create such an account for my Net use so that I don't have to use my Admin
account for Net or general use.

Please me help in this regard.

Thankx in advance 4 u r help and time.

Oc9ine.

 

[DL]

You shouldnt be using the default admin account for general use
Their should have been, during the winxp set up, a default 'username'
account setup, use that for general usage

 

[Poprivet]

Hi everyone,

I have winxp sp2. I want to create a User account which should be
hidden. I mean i do not want to show its name in Welcome screen and
and its Documents and Settings folder displayed in the Root folder of
Explorer. I want to create such an account for my Net use so that I
don't have to use my Admin account for Net or general use.

Please me help in this regard.

Thankx in advance 4 u r help and time.

Oc9ine.

Can't be done; can be hidden, but that won't hide it from
everything/everyone. ACCESS to it can be stopped, but you can't hide it
across the board.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hi everyone,

I have winxp sp2. I want to create a User account which should be hidden.
I mean i do not want to show its name in Welcome screen

That part is easy, and TweakUI will help you.

and and its Documents and Settings folder displayed in the Root folder of
Explorer.

This part can't be done. The folders will always be visble, though you
can restrict access to them. You cannot hide their existence.

I want to create such an account for my Net use

Hiding the account folders will not really protect them.

so that I don't have to use my Admin account for Net or general use.

You should *not* be using the system Administrator account for anything but
system maintenance.

Give that account a good password and leave it alone. Give the user
accounts good passwords and change them regularly.

HTH
-pk

 

[Winda]

|User account which should be hidden
Not sure about creating a hidden account, but you can restrict access to it

|i do not want to show its name in Welcome screen
This can be done with TweakUI.

|Documents and Settings folder displayed in the Root folder of Explorer
Great diffuculty if you want to start creating some registry keys to achieve this,
I managed to do similar with the Music, Pictures, and Video folders, not at the
root, but under the desktop icon in Explorer, at the same level with the
Documents, My Computer folders. You will need a tool to create GUIDs for this, and
you will need to document what you have done along the way in case you need to
remove what has been done. I am not sure if there are tools that will enable you
to easily do this, but a search on 'Special Folder Tools", or 'Virtual Folder
Tools' may be a start. By the way there are tools out there that will customise XP
folders, like hiding them, making them private....

eg. http://www.fspro.net/hide-folders-xp/

Also do not use the Administrator Account XP creates on installation, create your
own administrator account.

- Winda


| Hi everyone,
|
| I have winxp sp2. I want to create a User account which should be hidden. I
| mean i do not want to show its name in Welcome screen and and its Documents
| and Settings folder displayed in the Root folder of Explorer. I want to
| create such an account for my Net use so that I don't have to use my Admin
| account for Net or general use.
|
| Please me help in this regard.
|
| Thankx in advance 4 u r help and time.
|
| Oc9ine.
|
|