Friday, August 22, 2008

Hide windows xp user account from logon screen



Would you like to hide your user account from other people ?

If there are multiple user accounts in you computer windows XP normally show all of them in logon screen.

But some people like to hide there user account from other people who share that computer. If you like to make invisible your user account from logon screen this article may help you to do so.


To do this thing we are going to change windows registry settings so I suggest make system restore point before you change registry settings.

1) press win+ R key combination (for run dialog box)

2) type regedit in run dialog box. Click ok to enter registry.

3) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\ CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Click edit new DWORD value

Name that value with name of your user account(what you want to hide)

(in my case I want to hide my user account which name is max )


When value Data set to 0 windows hide you r account. If You like to make it visible change Value Data to 1.Reboot the system. Now look at the logon screen. You hide your user account successfully.