Hide User Accounts in Windows XP Welcome Screen
The welcome screen displays all of the local users on the system, except the built-in administrator account that was created during setup. Hide Your User Account If we want to hide a specific user from the list, we need to create a special value under this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonSpecialAccountsUserList Under this key you simply create a new DWORD value – the name matches the users name exactly, and the value is one of the following (Decimal format) 0 – Hides the user just from the welcome screen 1 – The user is shown Before you start putting values in this key, I want to warn you. This tip is particularly dangerous
