Hiding a User Account from the Welcome Screen

One thing which I don’t like about Windows is that it lists its all user accounts in Welcome Screenwhen we restart or logoff windows. Some time’s I doesn’t want to share my user account with anyone but windows has not providing any facilities relating to this. But now you can easily do this with my Super Trick.

Hiding of a User Account can be done easily with some changes in system registry. Microsoft have a Local System Settings in which lists of accounts are hidden.  These accounts are system accounts under which different processes run and execute in the Background.

Hiding an User Account can be done by following these simple steps :-

• Click Start, then Run. Type regedit in the box and OK.

• A Registry Editor dialog box opens. Expand the following Keys:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,SOFTWARE,  Microsoft, Windows NT, Current Version, Winlogon, Special Accounts, and UserLists.

•  To add your user name in list, just right click on the blank area and select New, DWORD value. A DWORD is a specific data type of an entry in the system registry. In short, the DWORD data type allows an integer value to be stored.

• When the new key created, enter your User Account name in it. After that you can close the regedit dialog box.

After completing all these steps please restart your computer and see the magic. If you ever want to logon into that User Account, press CLR+ALT+DLT one or two times. Enter the name ofUser Account in which you want to Login. By this way you can hide your User Account from your family or friends.


If you ever change your mind and want to display User Account on welcome Screen, then delete the entry that you had made in regedit editor.














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