Welcome screen always appear as first screen on Windows XP. You can look all created accounts on your computer. To login, just click an account on there. That’s it, it’s so easy. By default, Windows XP will show all of created accounts in system. Unfortunately, maybe you don’t want this. Maybe you have a ‘secret’ account which want to hidden. Because Windows XP doesn’t provide a tool to hide it from Welcome Screen, you must tweak the registry.

For example I have three accounts on my Welcome Screen. They are Administrator, Farrel, and Listi. And I want to hide Listi account from Welcome Screen.

Here are the steps:
1. To play with registry, open Registry Editor first by click Start -> Run menu, enter regedit in box and then press Enter.

2. In Registry Editor,

navigate to this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList.

3. On right panel, you’ll see the list that contains all accounts which hidden from Welcome Screen. To hide an account, create a new DWORD value by right click on empty space, click New -> DWORD value menu

and replace the value with your account name (in my case, I wrote Listi)

4. Now, you have a new entry with your account name on registry.

5. Try to restart your computer, and look on your Welcome Screen, if you did all steps correctly, your ‘secret’ account has been hidden.

(article no: 0060)