hiding the default administrator

[tuuf]

I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the
administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default
administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and
running.

 

[John McGaw]

I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the
administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default
administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and
running.

Well, this page

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm

tells you how to reveal the administrator login so maybe simply reversing
the procedure will hide it?

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com

 

[Remedy]

It would be easiest to just install something like TweakXp which can do that
for you easily as well as other tasks.

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakutility/download.aspx

Once it has installed run the program, in the left hand menu you need to
select

System & Security > Log On > then un-check the show "Administrator" on
welcome screen item & Show admin on welcome screen

This should fix your problem

 

[Nightowl]

I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the
administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default
administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and
running.

It won't appear on the Welcome screen as a login choice once you create
another user account with admin privileges (unless you use Kelly's
tweak, of course

 

[BillW50]

Nightowl wrote on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:59:21 +0100:

It won't appear on the Welcome screen as a login choice once you create
another user account with admin privileges (unless you use Kelly's
tweak, of course

I don't know about Kelly's tweak, but I seem to recall all I do is to
just rename it to something else.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the
administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the
default
administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and
running.

All you need to do to have it not appear on the Welcome screen is to create
another account.

If you want to protect that account, give it a decent password so that
people can't just find where you hid it and use it.

HTH
-pk