Windows 7 hide logon screen

If I hide the admin account which is the only account authorized to make registry changes, I cannot unhide it. When the Welcome screen is enabled CAD does nothing. Yes if you restart in safe mode you can enter the registry and change the value. My problem is I want to be able to work on these computers remotely which leaves out a reboot into safe mode.

The only idea I have is locking them with a program like Centurion SmartShield and disabling the registry when locked. Of course that would mean that I would have to allow non admin users access to the registry and make sure SmartShield was turned on to prevent access.

Are you not entering the credentials into the remote client which then passes them to the local computer? Since they are public access computers, I prefer not to let the user know that there is another ID available for them to try to guess the password.

It's amazing what lengths college students will go to in order to run or access something they are not supposed to. Close Regedit. This change usually takes effect immediately, logout or restart to confirm the user is hidden from the logon screen.

To restore the user go back into Regedit to the same location. REG files that you can simply double click to import the data automatically into the registry. Then save the file. There are 3. REG files in the archive, one to hide a user from the logon screen, one to make the user visible again, and the third will make all currently hidden users visible. Download Hide User Registry Files. This little tool is only 63KB in size and we found it on an old blog called Scenario-Solution.

Hide Users appears to have been created in-house. Run the Hide Users program as administrator, select an available user from the drop down menu and it will tell you if the user is currently hidden or visible. Click the Hide User button to hide a currently visible user or Show User to do the reverse.

Download Hide Users. As the name implies, this was created several years ago during the XP era and although it does also work on Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 10, there is a major limitation. As a result the values are added in the wrong place and not processed so this tool is ineffective on bit systems.

On bit systems it runs fine. Using the program is easy, right click and run it as administrator. It will then display a list of user accounts in the window and you simply check the boxes of any accounts you wish to hide, then press OK. Type UserList and press Enter. 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. If I understand this thread correctly, then here is a solution for making the local users dissappear from the "windows 7 Professional 64" login screen, while still being "active" users for local network share purposes.

Find the policy for "Deny log on locally 4. Click on "Add User or Group" button 5. Add all the user names that you don't want to show up in the text box, separated with semicolons ; and hit the "Check Names" button. If all is well click OK and those accounts should no longer have a login icon at startup.

Is it possible to get a batch file or script which would automate the task of hiding one account with administrative privileges on a large numbver of computers so that it does not appear on the logon screen. However it should be possible to remotely login to the computer using the same login account and push patches and updates.

It is worth noting that out of a large number of computers, some have Windows XP, some have Vista, while others have Windows 7 loaded on them. So the batch file or script proposed should be able to work on all the three operating systems. Possible reasons are blank passwords are not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has been enforeced. This will save me many headaches when I have to send workgroup laptops to the GoM and they suddenly need an admin account for something.

If I let them, they would just log into the Administrator desktop for everything, but as I cannot go on the boat, I had to have some way for them accessing the admin without logging into its desktop. This was easy to do in XP. To help with search engines: aRedDawg showed how to require a username and password for the Run As Administrator dialog when the desired Administrator account is hidden from the logon screen in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Hey i'm having the same problem but I dun know how to do it HI I had used this step its works but one problem happens I had done in admin account that's hide my admin account and i can't.

Guessing the original asker won't see this, but for the benefit of any who may come across this looking for such functionality in Windows The name "DomainStyleLogon" doesn't seem to matter - just that there is an empty key under ProfileList.

So I reversed the fix offered there by KindBullet and it seems to work. I'm not saying I recommend this - intentionally using what seems to be a bug, and may be "fixed" in the future - but it does seem to be working fine for me without other side effects. I did this, and it worked. But now I've got a problem: I removed admin privileges from this user the one I set up to be the only VISIBLE account in the login screen, though there are other, admin accounts on the machine , but since doing so, when I try to install software while logged on as the user, it no longer permits me to enter an administrator password it says "To continue, type an administrator password, and then click Yes", but the Yes button is grayed-out.

Also, in the login screen, it does not permit me to switch user. The only button available, beneath the password field for the user, is "Cancel". How might I get back into this machine, under one of my admin accounts? With regards to this steps. How about if you accidentally hide the administrator account instead of non-elevated user account and you already restart the machine, now how you will unhide or reverse the result if you don't have administrator privilage because you login as standard user only?

You're a genius my friend.. I tried every steps out here and none of them works because they don't know the exact situation.. You just saved my time reinstalling the whole operating system and every programs on my pc.. This one is better than the registychange.

It follows user interface. No danger of messing in the registry. Instant effect noticed. You can create own securitygroups within Windows 7. Used this function to assign a user to the proper SQL management group. Be forewarned!! Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English.

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Sign in to vote. Thursday, October 15, PM. Friday, October 16, PM. Hi, you can do this through secpol. Proposed as answer by M. Gauttier Monday, October 19, PM. Friday, October 16, AM.

Hi Calvin, From the post, I think you are trying to disable other accounts to logon instead of hide them in welcome screen. Christian, No, I should describe the steps more clearly as follows: 1.

The problem I have is the "Other User" and I want to disable it because it will allow the end user to log on as domain account.

Thank you. To do so: click Start, then type in "cmd" no quotes ; wait for "CMD. The Administrative command prompt should appear; right click in the middle of the window and select "Paste" from the dialogue menu.

The text you copied inside of Notepad should now be output to the command line. If you have any other hidden accounts you would like to add, do it now - simply repeat Steps 3 to 5, changing the NAME variable along the way.

Now it's time to log off the machine to test the results. This will take you back to the login screen where you can view all users able to login to Windows and verify that the hidden user account s are in fact hidden. I hope that helps. Got a Computer Question or Problem? Ask Dennis! Filed under:. Windows Tips.