[xp] Hide Accounts

Many of you probably use the welcome screen in XP so you don't have to enter a username, you just click, but this list all users on the computer and you may not want all listed, in this case you can make a registry edit to hide the account from the welcome screen.

IMPORTANT: THIS REQUIRES YOU TO EDIT THE REGISTRY, IF YOU DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY YOU COULD MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER, IN SOME CASES A REGISTRY BACKUP MAY WORK, IF YOU CAN USE IT, SEARCH GOOLGLE FOR REGISTRY BACKUP TO FIND OUT HOW TO DO THIS< OR BETTER YET IF YOU DO NOT FELL LIKE YOU CAN PROPERLY DO THIS THEN DONT, BUT FOLLOWING THESE INSTRUCTIONS YOU SHoulD BE SAFE.

1. Goto this key in the registry, to get to the registry goto Start -> Run and enter regedit

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

3. Name the DWORD valuse the username of the account you wish to hide, NOTE: In some cases the username may differ from the displayed name, the usernae is set when the account is created, if you goto change the name after that you are just changing the display nemae, you need to know the username you enter to login to this account if you didn't use the welcome screen.

4. Levae the value of the entry as 0

5. To logg into hidden accounts press Ctrl=Alt=Delete twice without letting go of Ctrl and Alt.

I hear that using Ctrl-Alt-Delete twice will also allow you to loging to the admin account in xp home without booting into safe mod, i have not yet tested this. I onnly know this works for xp home though it should work for pro too.

NOTE: it only works when all users are logged off user switching doesn't work.