How To: Make an Invisible User Account in Vista
Okay so your sharing your computer with your parents or using the family computer and your sick of them going through your stuff, you could make a new account and password protect it but then that will make your parents suspicious your hiding something so what do you do? You make a an invisible user account of course, but wait… Is it really worth it? It’s virtually like having your own pc cause they wont be able to see any of that users documents or folders (including temporary, history ect..) and best of all THE USER WON’T APPEAR IN THE PARENTAL CONTROLS LIST OF ACCOUNTS.
1) Click on theStart Menu.
2) Where it says “Start Search” enter regedit and hit Enter.
3) A pop up will come up (UAC), just click Continue.
4) Once in regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
5) In the left panel, right click on Winlogon and click New and click Key.
6) Type SpecialAccounts and press Enter.Below is how you should be doing so far.
7) In the left panel, right click on SpecialAccounts and click New and click Key.
Type UserList and press Enter.
9) In right panel of UserList, right click on a empty area and click New then click DWORD (32bit) Value.
10) Type in the name of the user account that you want to hide and press Enter.eg: Everyday Account. Below is how you should be doing so far:
11) In the right panel, right click on the user account name and click Modify.
12) To hide the user account - Type 0 and click OK. (number zero not the letter)
Whenever you want to use the account just unhide the it by typing 1 instead of zero.
13) Close regedit and your done, enjoy your secret account =).
- Friday, November 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 am
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December 17th, 2007 at 11:48 am
I was just wondering if you know how or if it was possible to make an invisible user account for windows XP
thanks
January 16th, 2008 at 6:22 am
how the fuck do you login?
March 9th, 2008 at 7:00 am
How do you login into the account
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Ive set up everything you asked, just dont know how to log in!
March 9th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Oh nevermind i get it now
, but what i was looking for is something that you can have an invisible account that you can login into at the welcome screen, because i want to use my sisters laptop without her knowing lol, her account is passworded so i cant change it to (1) when i want to use it!
March 15th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
to login press CTRL+ALT+DELETE at the same time before you login to any other account. you will be promoted to enter the user account name and password .
March 25th, 2008 at 5:09 am
YOU ROCK!!! i made hidden account i just dont know how to log in, i tried the CTRL+ATL+DELETE thing but it isnt working!
April 6th, 2008 at 4:14 am
CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn’t works on Vista…. so u cant log on at the welcome screen
April 11th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Try press CTRL+ALT+DEL, but press DEL 2 X, not 1.
Works for me.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:43 am
uhmm well that didn’t really work for me….maybe my Vista is retarted but yea….i tried to do that and then when I clicked the CTRL+ALT+DEL buttons it didn’t work…am I supposed to click them like i would to get the task manager up or am i supposed to click them ALL at the SAME TIME?
May 1st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
quote-I was just wondering if you know how or if it was possible to make an invisible user account for windows XP
thanks-
download tweak ui here
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/tweakui.htm
when u open it click logon and uncheck where it says show account on welcome screen under the account u want hiddin
when logged out press ctrl+alt+del twice fast to get a clasic logon prompt then enter youe username and password to get in this only works on xp
May 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
To make it work, you should create your account first via User Accounts. Then edit the registry which then hides or shows the user account in the login/welcome screen.
June 8th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Don’t listen to this guy!! Unless you configure some other options beforehand, this tweak will not only hide the account you want to hide but also DISABLE ANY LOGIN ON THE OTHER ACCOUNTS, essentially bricking your OS and forcing a reinstall! MAKE SURE YOU ENABLE THE ALTERNATE NT-STYLE LOGON SCREEN BEFORE DOING THIS!
Sincerely,
The Guy who just got SCREWED BY BAD ADVICE
July 24th, 2008 at 2:47 am
You log in by pressing ctrl alt delete twice.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:36 am
So if you download Itunes onto the secret account, It wont show up at all on the regular/admin account?
August 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Yea, I think windows home premium has issues with the alt control delete trick to logining in, anyone have an alternative, for the xp hidden account its the same process but only different in the way that the files that you need to create for vista, is already there. Are there alternative ways of logining in?
August 20th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Go to Windows Registry and edit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
dontdisplaylastusername = 1
Make sure you know your user names because it will show you two input boxes under the Vista Logon Screen instead of User Icons (user and pass edit boxes, like in old NT style)!
It works perfectly! Good luck guys!
Thanks