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Making users invisible...

Started by iago, September 07, 2003, 04:25 PM

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iago

On windows xp, and I'm not sure about other windows OS's, the welcome screen has a list of some of the users of the computer.  Other users, like, for instance, iusr_blah, administrator, and guest don't show up.  Does anybody know how to set a user to not be displayed?

My other option is to disable the welcome screen (since all my iis-only accounts are displayed there, which is annoying), but I get the feeling that that would confuse my family (uuh.. what's my name?).


I was looking through the Computer Management settings, under users, and the users I want to make invisible has the exact same settings as iusr_blah and guest.
This'll make an interesting test for broken AV:
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Adron

Administrator is specifically hidden. Are the other accounts enabled? Disabled accounts aren't shown...

Camel

I'm not sure exactly what controls whether or not an account is displayed, but I know Tweak UI can modify it. Additionally, you can press alt+ctrl+del twice at the welcome screen to get the terminal login screen (you must log out all users first; 'switch users' will not suffice).