Remove a user from Welcome screen

We can hide a user account in welcome screen , if its necessary to do.

Microsoft hides certain system accounts by default , these accounts support certain background processes. We need not know much of these.

We can use the same steps to hide a user account.

How you can do ??

Follow the steps:

1. Open regedit

2. Follow the path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList.

3. In the right panel right-click and select NEW—>DWORD value and give the name of the account to be hidden.

4. Close the registry editor and restart the system.

5. Now the user account can be seen hidden in the windows logon screen .

6. To login through that account press ctrl+alt+delete twice when you are in the log on screen and give the user name and password to login.

 

Note: Its always a good habit to back up registry before we make any changes to the registry. Its easy to revert back to the original state if anything goes wrong after changes are made.