Comments on: How to Create Hidden User Account (Hide User Account from Welcome Screen) in Windows

By: AC

AC — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:26:38 +0000

ctrl alt delete doesn’t work in vista and windows 7

By: heimo

heimo — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0000

THIS IS NOT A TRICK IT’S A FEATURE of WindowsXP:

@ Start Menu run this command:

CONTROL USERPASSWORDS2

and uncheck: Users must enter a user name and password

and you’re done..

By: heimo

heimo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:32:43 +0000

THIS IS NOT A TRICK IT’S A FEATURE
of Vista & W7:

@ Start Button run this command:

NETPLWIZ

and uncheck: Users must enter a user name and password

nothing else…

By: adurham

adurham — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:19:52 +0000

I ran into the same problem. The fix I found is to first go in to the local group policy editor (gpedit.msc) and go to Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Credential User Interface and change “Enumerate adminstrator accounts on elevation” to “Disabled.” This causes UAC to prompt for a Username and Password rather than list all the adminstrator accounts. This way you can type in the name of the hidden account and use UAC.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:38:33 +0000

For those who couldnt get the “runas” command below to work properly, navigate on ANY account to System32/Redgedit32.exe.

Hold Shift and then Right Click it, then select the “Run as a different user”. You can then manually type in the user/pass of the hidden account, and undo the changes you made.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:37:37 +0000

For those who locked themselves out like myself and Green Airplane and wind up here via google search, I have a suggestion. To start regedit as an administrator and undo the damage that you did do the following:
1. Start a command prompt and type “runas /user:Admin cmd”. This will open a new command prompt running as your administrator user
2. In the new command prompt type “regedit.exe” and click yes when the UAC prompts you. There is no need to select a user and put in a password as you are already logged in as the administrator

By: vTech

vTech — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:26:22 +0000

For a method that works all the time, type in secpol.msc into the start menu search box and then navigate to Local Policies \ Security Options.

Find the setting for “Interactive Logon: Do not display last user name” and change it to enabled.

This will activate the classic login screen.

By: malcolm

malcolm — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:35:25 +0000

how about you give the person some space jk ummm does cntl alt del work on vista?

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By: Winston Smith

Winston Smith — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:06:16 +0000

Same problem as Green Airplane. Take this stupid “tip” down, you’re just borking people’s machines.

By: xele

xele — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:22:44 +0000

nice..

By: Huh

Huh — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:59:34 +0000

No special accounts folder in windows 7 for me….

By: Crikulus

Crikulus — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:29:00 +0000

@Green Airplane

In XP you must hit ctrl+alt+d;t twice to get the dialog.
I don’t know how it’s done in Vista though

By: Green Airplane

Green Airplane — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:19:54 +0000

Great. I have created the respective keys in the registry. Worked like a charm.
I have two administrator accounts and one normal user. The two admin accounts have vanished from the welcome screen. There is only one problem – the ctrl+alt+del shortcut won’t bring up the old style login dialog. I can only log in as the restricted user. What’s more, any time I try to run some administrative application, UAC jumps at me and asks me to type in administrator password. But the modification seems to have hidden the admin accounts from the UAC dialog as well. I am now completely locked out of a system I have just installed, even though I know passwords for two different admin accounts. ANY suggestions?

By: Green_Airplane

Green_Airplane — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:41:10 +0000

Tried this in a fresh installation of Windows 7, got as far as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
there si no SpecialAccounts ‘folder’ there. Just AutoLogonChecked and GPExtensions. Any suggestions?

By: John

John — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:06:25 +0000

Worked like a charm under Windows 7.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:01:55 +0000

I created a hidden account in windows vista but when I try Ctrl+alt+del it does not work how do i acces my hidden account on the welcome screen?