In Sam's case, he wants to use special, hidden user accounts that are used for Remote Desktop purposes, and to keep these accounts hidden from the Windows login screen. This is similar to how Windows Server works.
Let's look at another reason why you might want to hide a user account at login. Let's say you want to lock down a folder share on the network server computer , such that only a specific user has access to it and no one else. One way to achieve this is to create a user account on the server computer with the same user name and password as another remote machine on the network.
Once that is done, you can create a network folder share, then specify the user name on the remote system as having full permissions. Since the user name exists on both systems and the passwords are the same, Windows will grant the user access to the folder and deny everyone else.
Now that we have some solid examples as to why you might want to hide a user account on the Windows login screen, let's get down to the nitty gritty on how to achieve this.
I have gone ahead and made a simple script to achieve this, though you will need to modify the ' NAME ' variable below to make it work. To do so: click Start, then type in "Notepad"; wait for Notepad to appear in the list, then click it. The text you copied in Step 2 above should now be output into Notepad. Once you have made that change, highlight all of the text in Notepad, then right click over top of it and select "Copy" from the dialogue menu. Now it's time to execute the command using using an administrative command prompt.
To do so: click Start, then type in "cmd" no quotes ; wait for "CMD. The Administrative command prompt should appear; right click in the middle of the window and select "Paste" from the dialogue menu. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. That does disable the account. Synetech: Has that changed since XP, and do other values e. I tested it today and as soon as I added the admin account to it, the password field and [Yes] button of the UAC dialog became disabled.
Removing or renaming the registry entry re-enabled the ability to enter a password in the UAC dialog. As for values, it looks like the mere existence of the value is enough to disable an account; the actual value is irrelevant. I just tested it - it didn't disable the account. I tried "Run as different user" using Administrator account and it worked.
Reboot the machine. ArcherGodson ArcherGodson 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. I think this only applies to professional and ultimate? Without this setting Windows will display the last successfully logged on user in the login dialog. With this setting enabled Windows will not display the name of the last user that successfully logged on. The setting is not related to the welcome screen nor to hiding the admin account.
The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back You may have to reboot once or twice, but it works. I have the same problem. But I could not log in as administrator and when I type username and password in the "other user" It didn't work. The only user I can log on is guest account. Anyone help me! I could not log on as administrator in the "other user". I could only log on as guest account I may have misunderstood somwhat. If you hide a user acount it will be unusable.
You can use "local users and groups" mmc to disable accounts or if it'home premium it won't have local users and groups so just use the net user command. So now that I have done this, I cannot logon to the machine with those accounts anymore or use the admin priviledges for them. I thought it would just hide the accounts. How do I login once I have put in users int he UserList key?.
I can't get back into the regedit because I don't have any other admin accounts. If you would like to unhide the hidden Administrator account on Windows 7 Operating System , here's how you can do it:.
I can get as far as right clicking winlogon, but as I try to press key, it says I have no permission!? I wanted to do the same, follow the initial instructions and then was also blocked, because I hide the only administrator account.
Windows 7 Professional in workgroup. Found 2 solutions apart from using Win 7 DVD to correct the situation:. I tried the method you posted it works as for removing a user account. But if you want to use the user account you have hidden, you can't! In fact you can't use ctrl-alt-del either that doesn't work. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate and have two user accounts. After hiding the one account i wasn't able to connect to the internet or make any changes to my system.
I did a search and was able to restore the hidden account and use my computer again. I was lucky because i have linux on another partition and found a solution. In XP, you could control which accounts were visible on the welcome screen. This did not affect anything except what appeared on that screen i. As of this posting, this is not possible at all in Windows 7 nor in Vista I believe.
Many solutions offered on the Internet will actually make your system unusable and will be difficult to undo. If you disable your administrative accounts, it can then be difficult or impossible to establish the necessary privileges to ever re-enable them. The closest I've been able to manage is to rename the accounts you want to hide with dummy names so at least they are not recognizable this doesn't help much.
Type UserList and press Enter. Type in the name of the user account that you want to hide and press Enter. In the right panel, right click on the user account name and click Modify. To hide the user account — Type 0 and click OK. If I understand this thread correctly, then here is a solution for making the local users dissappear from the "windows 7 Professional 64" login screen, while still being "active" users for local network share purposes.
Find the policy for "Deny log on locally 4. Click on "Add User or Group" button 5. Add all the user names that you don't want to show up in the text box, separated with semicolons ; and hit the "Check Names" button. If all is well click OK and those accounts should no longer have a login icon at startup.
Is it possible to get a batch file or script which would automate the task of hiding one account with administrative privileges on a large numbver of computers so that it does not appear on the logon screen. However it should be possible to remotely login to the computer using the same login account and push patches and updates. It is worth noting that out of a large number of computers, some have Windows XP, some have Vista, while others have Windows 7 loaded on them.
So the batch file or script proposed should be able to work on all the three operating systems. Possible reasons are blank passwords are not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has been enforeced. This will save me many headaches when I have to send workgroup laptops to the GoM and they suddenly need an admin account for something.
If I let them, they would just log into the Administrator desktop for everything, but as I cannot go on the boat, I had to have some way for them accessing the admin without logging into its desktop. This was easy to do in XP. To help with search engines: aRedDawg showed how to require a username and password for the Run As Administrator dialog when the desired Administrator account is hidden from the logon screen in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Hey i'm having the same problem but I dun know how to do it HI I had used this step its works but one problem happens I had done in admin account that's hide my admin account and i can't. Guessing the original asker won't see this, but for the benefit of any who may come across this looking for such functionality in Windows The name "DomainStyleLogon" doesn't seem to matter - just that there is an empty key under ProfileList. So I reversed the fix offered there by KindBullet and it seems to work.
I'm not saying I recommend this - intentionally using what seems to be a bug, and may be "fixed" in the future - but it does seem to be working fine for me without other side effects. I did this, and it worked. But now I've got a problem: I removed admin privileges from this user the one I set up to be the only VISIBLE account in the login screen, though there are other, admin accounts on the machine , but since doing so, when I try to install software while logged on as the user, it no longer permits me to enter an administrator password it says "To continue, type an administrator password, and then click Yes", but the Yes button is grayed-out.
Also, in the login screen, it does not permit me to switch user. The only button available, beneath the password field for the user, is "Cancel". How might I get back into this machine, under one of my admin accounts? With regards to this steps.
How about if you accidentally hide the administrator account instead of non-elevated user account and you already restart the machine, now how you will unhide or reverse the result if you don't have administrator privilage because you login as standard user only? You're a genius my friend.. I tried every steps out here and none of them works because they don't know the exact situation.. You just saved my time reinstalling the whole operating system and every programs on my pc..
This one is better than the registychange. It follows user interface. No danger of messing in the registry.
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