Make a Hidden User Account on Windows

[.:lu42s:.(haxxor)]

This may work on Vista but i haven't tried it yet.

Here's what you do, you need to be an admin to create an account or use the admin tools. You need to have an account ready, this will be the invisible account. you can add a new account or use an existing one

1. Go to Run and type "regedit"

(No quotations)

2. Press the plus by "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"

3. Then the plus by "SOFTWARE"

4. Then "Microsoft"

5. And then go to "WindowsNT"

6. Go to "CurrentVersion"

7. Then "Winlogon"

8. Then "SpecialAccounts"

9. And finally just click on "UserList"

don't press the plus

10. Right click and create a "DWORD" value

11. Put the value name as the hidden user account name

12. And set the "Value Data" to 0

13. Exit the window then reboot.

NOTE: To make this less suspicious use the windows welcome screen instead of the plain text one. The welcome screen shows all user accounts except the hidden one. Now to login from the welcome screen, hold CTRL+ALT and double tap DELETE. This will show the plain text version of the welcome screen that does not display user accounts. Simply put in the hidden user account's user name and password and you're in.

As I said before I have not tested this in vista.

And if you need me to i will post screenshots

;)

[Netshroud]

Also works under Vista and 7. To hide all users starting with a phrase, for example, 'hak_', create a DWORD called 'hak_' and set it to 65535.

[.:lu42s:.(haxxor)]

oh, good im getting my windows 7 thing sometime soon.

[SomethingToChatWith]

If you're concerned about the username displaying on classic logon you can disable displaying of the last username.

[Darkmist!]

now to add this to the hacksaw and have it automatically put this in when you insert the thumb drive

[Laethan]

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList" /v USERNAME /t reg_dword /d 0 /f

Past that into a batch file and you don't need to do all those steps....

[SomethingToChatWith]

You won't be able to do that if you're not logged in as an Administrator though.

[0x3]

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList" /v USERNAME /t reg_dword /d 0 /f

Past that into a batch file and you don't need to do all those steps....

Thanks, but how we could run this from the command ?

[moonlit]

Copy/paste that string into a command window or the Run dialog.

[sirgregg]

If it's just about hiding the user from the logon screen, than I believe you don't need to fiddle with the registry to do that... You can download Microsoft's TweakUI, go to 'logon' and select the users you want shown. This will only work on XP though.