Sunday, March 26, 2006

Hide users on Welcome screen in Windows XP

You can hide user accounts from showing in welcome screen in Windows XP using this registry trick.
Start>Run
Type regedit
This opens the registry editor
Navigate 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
If you want to enable this user again on the Welcome Screen, either double-click the Username value, and change the Value data to 1, or delete the Username
Close the registry editor

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