Vista Welcome Screen

[James0]

In Windows XP you could "hide" user accounts from the welcome screen by
editing the registry. I would like to do this in Vista. I do not want to
have Vista log in automatically, I just want to remove one of the users from
the welcome screen without removing the user account. Is this possible in
Vista like it was in XP?
Thanks and have a good day!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Enable CTRL-ALT-DEL, open Run command type control userpasswords2 > click
Enter > click 'Continue' on the UAC dialog > click Advanced (tab) > under
'Secure settings' > check 'Require users to press CTRL-ALT-DEL

 

[Andrew McLaren]

In Windows XP you could "hide" user accounts from the welcome screen by
editing the registry. I would like to do this in Vista. I do not want to

Hi James,

Run Regedit and create the following key:

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

("Winlogon" already exists, you need to create the "SpecialAccounts" and
"UserList" keys).

Under UserList key, add a REG_DWORD value with the name of the user account
you wish to hide (eg "fsmith", "sqlservice" or whatever). Give it the value
of 0, to hide the user from the logon screen. To make the user visible
again, set the value to 1, or delete their name altogether from the key.

When you reboot, the user will no longer appear on the logon welcome screen.

The SpecialAccounts and UserList keys already exist in XP, by default. For
some reason they were removed from the default registry in Vista - but they
still work, once you create them by hand.

Hope it helps,

 

[JamesO]

Hi James,

Run Regedit and create the following key:

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

("Winlogon" already exists, you need to create the "SpecialAccounts" and
"UserList" keys).

Under UserList key, add a REG_DWORD value with the name of the user
account you wish to hide (eg "fsmith", "sqlservice" or whatever). Give it
the value of 0, to hide the user from the logon screen. To make the user
visible again, set the value to 1, or delete their name altogether from
the key.

When you reboot, the user will no longer appear on the logon welcome
screen.

The SpecialAccounts and UserList keys already exist in XP, by default. For
some reason they were removed from the default registry in Vista - but
they still work, once you create them by hand.

Hope it helps,

Thanks,
I wasn't sure about adding the keys since they didn't exist.
Thanks again and have a good day!