Hide a single user account from the Welcome Screen

Still playing around w/ all my computers... Here is a quick trick I had to implement this AM: showing only the limited accounts which I have created and hide a few specific ones from the default Windows VISTA login screen.

By simply adding the username of the account to a special list in the registry, it will disappear from the Welcome Screen. For each account Just create a DWORD registry value at the following location:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion \Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList]
NameOfTheUser = 0 (1 = Show, 0 = Hide)

More info at: MS KB942956 [4]

Note that you may have to create the missing keys: SpecialAccounts and UserList.

Note also that in Vista the Administrator account is disabled by default and when activated, then it will be displayed on the Welcome Screen automatically. More Info MS KB 926183 [5]