Thursday, April 17, 2008

INVISIBLE account in XP

INVISIBLE account in the sense, it will not be listed in the login screen.This would be usefull if you ever want to keep your things personal and secret.To create this..

1.Create a new account,say maverick for example (you can careate new account by selecting "control panel" in start menu and then select "user accounts" in control panel and select Create a new account.)

2.After you finished up with creating new account, open run dialog box(Winkey + r) and type regedit and press enter.Then it opens registry editor.

3.Navigate to HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Currentversion\Winlogon\SpeacialAccounts\Userlist

4.In the right side window,right click and select a new DWORD value with the same name as of your new account,maverick in this case.Thatz it...you are ready with your new invisible account(if everything was done correctly.)

Now restart your pc . when the welcome screen comes to you, you can not able to see your new account until you press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice(don't bother,it will not restart your pc). A different screen will appear , there type in your new account name and password(if at all you set one) and select OK and you will login to your invisible account.

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