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Invisible Users

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_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinlogon

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.

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7) In the left panel, right click on SpecialAccounts and click New and click Key.

8) 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:

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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.

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13) Close regedit and your done, enjoy your secret account =).

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• How To: Select Default Vista Log On Account ^[7]
• How To: Hide Folders And Files In Windows ^[8]
• How To: Remove The Boot Error Beep Sounds ^[9]
• How To: Use Windows Mail With Yahoo ^[10]