{"id":2396,"date":"2008-05-14T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2024-02-25T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T01:05:17","slug":"hide-a-user-from-the-windows-xp-welcome-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/hide-a-user-from-the-windows-xp-welcome-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide a User from the Windows XP Welcome Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nTo hide a user&#039;s account from the welcome screen in Windows XP:\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open Registry Editor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:<br>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\WindowsNT\\CurrentVersion\\Winlogon\\SpecialAccounts\\UserList<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create the following entry: Username: REG_DWORD<br>(Where Username is the username of the user you want to hide from the Welcome Screen).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4. Assign a value of 0.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Close Registry Editor.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reboot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict-issues"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"james","author_link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/author\/james\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89zH1-CE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions\/2397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}