How can I hide usernames from Welcome Screen?

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qianwch

Hi all!
There are some usernames that I do not want to be displayed on Vista
Welcome Screen.
I could not find a TweakUI for Vista to accomplish this.
I googled and found a solution that concerned with the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion
\Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList].
I added the usernames[DWORD32:0] under the key, but the username still
appears on WelCome Screen.
Could anybody tell me how to get it worked?
Thanks in advance.
Weichun
 
You have Vista so an NT solution won't work. Revert what you've done and try :

create dword value at
HKLM\software\microsoft\windowsnt\currentversion\winlogon\speccialaccounts\userlist
Name of the user = 0
(0 = hide 1 = show)
 
Sorry, I didn't see you already tried my suggestion. It usually works after
cold boot.
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Corday said:
You have Vista so an NT solution won't work. Revert what you've done and try :

create dword value at
HKLM\software\microsoft\windowsnt\currentversion\winlogon\speccialaccounts\userlist
Name of the user = 0
(0 = hide 1 = show)

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qianwch said:
Hi all!
There are some usernames that I do not want to be displayed on Vista
Welcome Screen.
I could not find a TweakUI for Vista to accomplish this.
I googled and found a solution that concerned with the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion
\Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList].
I added the usernames[DWORD32:0] under the key, but the username still
appears on WelCome Screen.
Could anybody tell me how to get it worked?
Thanks in advance.
Weichun
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hi,
Thanks for your reply.
I have another solution for this issue: Create a policy to deny the users
to logon locally in "Local Security Policy",then the usernames will not be
found on WelCome Screen.
I have tried the SpecialAccounts registry key, it cannot to work arround
the problem, On Welcome Screen, I clicked "Switch Users", the usernames that
I prefer to be hidden will appear all the time.

Corday said:
Sorry, I didn't see you already tried my suggestion. It usually works
after
cold boot.
--
I mastered Wordstar graphics!


Corday said:
You have Vista so an NT solution won't work. Revert what you've done and
try :

create dword value at
HKLM\software\microsoft\windowsnt\currentversion\winlogon\speccialaccounts\userlist
Name of the user = 0
(0 = hide 1 = show)

--
I mastered Wordstar graphics!


qianwch said:
Hi all!
There are some usernames that I do not want to be displayed on Vista
Welcome Screen.
I could not find a TweakUI for Vista to accomplish this.
I googled and found a solution that concerned with the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion
\Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList].
I added the usernames[DWORD32:0] under the key, but the username
still
appears on WelCome Screen.
Could anybody tell me how to get it worked?
Thanks in advance.
Weichun
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
qianwch said:
Hi all!
There are some usernames that I do not want to be displayed on Vista
Welcome Screen.
I could not find a TweakUI for Vista to accomplish this.
I googled and found a solution that concerned with the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion
\Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList].
I added the usernames[DWORD32:0] under the key, but the username still
appears on WelCome Screen.
Could anybody tell me how to get it worked?
Thanks in advance.
Weichun
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If the user name isn't displayed on the Welcome Screen, how can that
user log in?
And if you really don't want the user to log in, why not just delete the
account?
Suspect I'm missing something here...

Bill
 
Bill Sharpe said:
qianwch said:
Hi all!
There are some usernames that I do not want to be displayed on
Vista
Welcome Screen.
I could not find a TweakUI for Vista to accomplish this.
I googled and found a solution that concerned with the registry
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion
\Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList].
I added the usernames[DWORD32:0] under the key, but the username
still
appears on WelCome Screen.
Could anybody tell me how to get it worked?
Thanks in advance.
Weichun
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If the user name isn't displayed on the Welcome Screen, how can that
user log in?
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Remotely through Remote Desktop or across the network. Also, in XP at
least you could CTRL+ALT+DEL twice from the Welcome screen to bring up
the username / password login screen. Not sure if you can still do that
in Vista or not.
And if you really don't want the user to log in, why not just delete
the
account?
Suspect I'm missing something here...
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Two reasons come to my mind - hide an administrator account from normal
users, and for accounts that shouldn't need to log in locally, but are
allowed network access (and that looks like what the OP wanted, as the
OP's last post talks about setting the policy to deny local logins for
those users.

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