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Monday, 5 March 2012

How to hide user account from the Windows XP welcome screen?


It shows how to hide user account from the Windows XP welcome screen using registry.
Keywords: registry, regedit, User Account, Logo, settings.

Steps to hide user account from the Win XP welcome screen

Step 1: Click Start button and type regedit in RUN option and continue.


Step 2: Then locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\
Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Step 3: Right click on the right side panel and create a new DWORD Value with the name of account to be hidden - the name matches the users name exactly.


Step 4: Then change the change the value to 0 (hide) and change to 1 (show).


 
Step 5: Now restart your system for the changes to take place.

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