Hide User Account

[Marcelo López]

Hi all.
I'd created an new user account (by using NET USER in command line) because
i need an special user so that my app can run as like that user.
The problem is that the new user accont appears on win xp start up, and
although it has pass, i don't want others users could see than the account
exists.

Is there any way to hide the account on win startup without desactiving it ?

Regards

Marcelo López
Infocorp.
Uruguay
Latin America.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

I'd created an new user account (by using NET USER in command line) because
i need an special user so that my app can run as like that user.
The problem is that the new user accont appears on win xp start up, and
although it has pass, i don't want others users could see than the account
exists.

Is there any way to hide the account on win startup without desactiving it ?

Hi

Doing it with a registry edit:

Sarah's Windows Tweak: Create a Hidden User Account
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/windowstips/story/0,24330,3519411,00.html


Doing it with a GUI program:

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

download and install the "Tweak UI" selection, select the user(s)
to hide on the Logon page part in TweakUI

 

[Brian]

This requires a registry modification...you could script it from the command
line if you needed to, or just use Registry Editor:

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \
CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList \

Right-click an empty space in the right pane and select New > DWORD Value

Name the new value exactly as the Username

Leave the Value data as 0

Voila, no more user...to log on to windows you will have to use
cntrl-alt-del--del now, still retains all other login privliges.

Brian

 

[Jim Morrison]

You could also go to Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Local
Policy > Security Options and change the value of "Interactive Logon: Do not
display last user name" to Enabled.

You may or may not have to also change "the way users log on" within the
user accounts area of WinXP.

Jim