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Administrator login
Hi, I have an Optiplex 580 and I just finished configuring the new computer. After I finished configuring the computer I rebooted the computer and I was surprised to see the administrator account and my user account showing in the login window. I do not want to show the administrator account in the login window. how can I fix this. I would like to see only my user name in the login window, not the administrator account.
thanks for your in advance.
Fernando
Pankaj Sharma
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Posted June 14th, 2012 22:00
Hi slcnano,
Welcome to the community,
You can perform these steps for the Windows 7 system, but please be sure to back up your registry first:
1. Go to regedit
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
3. On the left, right click on Winlogon, click New and click Key.
4. Type SpecialAccounts and Enter.
5. On the left, right click on SpecialAccounts, click New and click Key.
6. Type UserList and Enter.
7. In the right panel of UserList, right click on a empty area and click New then click DWORD (32bit) Value.
8. Here, type in the name of the user you want to hide. You may have to experiment with that, I don't know how spaces or changed user names affect this.
9. Right click on the user account name and click Modify.
10. To hide the user account type 0 and click OK.
If you want to show it again you have to enter 1 instead of 0 at the last step.
Let me know of the findings, Glad to be of assistance.
Pankaj_Sharma
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