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How can I hide a user from the Welcome Screen in Windows XP?
To hide a user‘s account from the welcome screen in Windows XP:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Username: REG_DWORD
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(Where Username is the username of the user you want to hide from the Welcome Screen).
This will prevent the user from showing up on the welcome screen. You will need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the logon screen to get the old W2K logon style box to be able to logon to the account you‘ve hidden. Adding a username and setting the value to 1 will cause that user, such as Administrator, to show up on the Welcome screen as well.
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