
Save it as UnhideAccounts.reg and then double click this file to merge it into Registry. You can create a text file using notepad like this : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 If you create the UserList registry key using an ordinary account rather than an adminsitartor account the key seems to allow ‘Users’ full permission on it. Here is an alternative solution for hose who locked themselves out hiding all admin accounts by mistake. This will allow you to edit Registry entries.
Now, type the required user name into the dialog which will appear on the screen. In the context menu, you will see a new item named "Run as different user":. Press and hold the SHIFT key on the keyboard and right click the file Regedit.exe.
Open File Explorer and go to folder C:\Windows. If your current user account doesn’t have administrator privileges to edit Registry, but the hidden one has it, you can do the following: To show that account again, you need delete the DWORD value you created earlier under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Registry key. To login into the hidden account, you need to make Windows to ask for user name and password during log on. If you done everything properly, the account will disappear from the logon screen. Do not modify its default value, leave it at 0. Use the login name which you noted earlier in Local Users and Groups as the name of the new value you just created. Create a new DWORD value in the UserList subkey. You should get the following path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Now create a key named UserList under the SpecialAccounts key. Create a new subkey here called SpecialAccounts.
Tip: You can access any desired Registry key with one click.
Go to the following Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon.
By default, Windows shows the "Full Name" value on the login screen, but we need the actual login name. Note the value of the first column, "Name".
Under Computer Management -> System Tools, select the item Local Users and Groups -> Users. Right click the Start button in the taskbar File Explorer and choose Computer Management from its context menu. To hide a user account from the login screen in Windows 10, you need to do the following. Here is how the login screen looks in Windows 10:įor example, let's hide the account named "Microsoft".