How to hide admin account and only show main user at logon screen in Windows?
Solution 1:
Yes, it seems you can hide the account following guidelines explained at Microsoft Technet forums. However you can't login then unless you set the registry key back.
- Go to
regedit
- Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
- On the left, right click on
Winlogon
, clickNew
and clickKey
. - Type
SpecialAccounts
and Enter. - On the left, right click on
SpecialAccounts
, clickNew
and clickKey
. - Type
UserList
and Enter. - In the right panel of
UserList
, right click on a empty area and clickNew
then clickDWORD (32bit) Value
. - Here, type in the name of the user you want to hide. You may have to experiment with that, I don't know how spaces or changed user names affect this.
- Right click on the user account name and click
Modify
. - To hide the user account type
0
and clickOK
.
If you want to show it again you have to enter 1
instead of 0
at the last step.
Alternatively, you can see the answers from this post: "Hide account from login screen but can be used in UAC"