How to hide admin account and only show main user at logon screen in Windows?
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"