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Can anyone please tell me how to hide admin account from the welcome screen without disabling it?
The method that uses the SpecialAccounts
registry key does disable the account, so you can no longer enter the admin password to run elevated tasks from a limited account.
The solution should be usable by Home editions of Windows, so if it requires a group-policy, please also include the registry entry that the group-policy editor alters.
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the "option 1" solved it: https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/507-built-administrator-account-enable-disable.html
– JinSnow – 2017-02-27T08:02:08.367The method that uses the
– zypA13510 – 2017-07-19T16:42:34.903SpecialAccounts
registry key does NOT disable the account. It is only hidden as you told it to. This is very different. Now actually an answer to your question (for anyone who reaches this question by search): how to hide admin account while still using it in UAC https://superuser.com/a/1823822This is an important question because if we are expected to use limited accounts for day-to-day activity instead of an admin account, then we need an easy way to elevate now and then without having to jump through hoops by logging into a separate account. That is exactly what the UAC dialogs are for. But to get that to work, we have to enable the default admin account and give it a password. However this also adds the admin account to the login screen which is usually undesirable.
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– Synetech – 2014-03-26T21:37:24.9371
@Synetech Another way to hide/show accounts: http://superuser.com/questions/423054/manually-enter-login-information-in-windows-7 Actually this one could be used as base for many different ways to control login screen contents even while example shows how to do it through accessibility options. Only limit here is creativity.
– Sampo Sarrala - codidact.org – 2014-03-26T21:54:10.4301@SampoSarrala, good tip thanks. Unfortunately I probably won’t want to use it for my mother’s system because I want to keep her system pure (no system modifications). Sadly, her system is exactly the one I want to protect by having her use a limited account, but not have an admin account cluttering up the login screen. This is precisely the problem: there’s no way to protect novice users that is clean, safe, easy, and convenient.
:-(
– Synetech – 2014-03-26T21:59:20.037