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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

How To: Make an Invisible User Account in XP/2003/Vista/2008

  • Open registry.
  • Navigate to following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/WindowsNT /CurrentVersion/Winlogon.
  • In the left panel, right click on Winlogon and click New and click Key.
  • Type SpecialAccounts and press Enter.
  • In the left panel, right click on SpecialAccounts and click New and click Key.
  • Type UserList and press Enter.
  • In right panel of UserList, right click on a empty area and click New then click DWORD (32bit) Value.
  • Type in the name of the user account that you want to hide and press Enter.
  • In the right panel, right click on the user account name and click Modify.
  • To hide the user account – Type 0 and click OK.
  • 11) Whenever you want to use the account just unhide the it by typing 1 instead of zero.

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