Otak Atik [dot] Com » registry editor http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:42:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Hide an Account from Welcome Screen http://www.otakatik.com/hide-an-account-from-welcome-screen/ http://www.otakatik.com/hide-an-account-from-welcome-screen/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:07:23 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=113 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)

]]> http://www.otakatik.com/hide-an-account-from-welcome-screen/feed/ 0 Free Your Memory Space http://www.otakatik.com/free-your-memory-space/ http://www.otakatik.com/free-your-memory-space/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:17:56 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/free-your-memory-space/ Logo
Every time we’re opening program, the program doesn’t load the .exe file only, it calls its all library files to memory as well. Unfortunately, by default Windows XP doesn’t always unload the library file from memory when we close the program that using that .dll file. So, I will share a little trick to unload the library files from memory when the programs don’t need them anymore.

OK, we will change our registry value for it, just follow these steps:
1. Open your Registry Editor, click Start – Run menu and then type regedit in the textbox.
Regedit

2. After Registry Editor has opened,
Opened Registry Editor

point your cursor to registry path : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer.
Registry path

3. Find the AlwaysUnloadDLL key, if you can’t find it just create it by right click on empty space on right panel Registry Editor and the click New – DWORD value.
New DWORD value

4. Type AlwaysUnloadDLL for new key and then press ENTER key.
New key

5. Double click on AlwaysUnloadDLL to change its value.

6. After Edit DWORD value window appear
Edit key

replace the original value 0 with 1 and then click OK button.
Replace value

7. The value of AlwaysUnloadDLL key will change.
Changed value

8. Close your Registry Editor and then restart your computer.

9. Your memory can breathe again now.

10. To restore the original state / setting just replace value 1 to 0 for AlwaysUnloadDLL key or delete it.
(article no:0059)

]]> http://www.otakatik.com/free-your-memory-space/feed/ 2