Hide accounts in Windows 7

Question

I have multiple accounts on my Windows 7 system. Some accounts aren't user account (e.g. accounts specifically for a service), yet these accounts still show on the Windows 7 Login screen.

Am I able to hide these accounts from being shown? I cannot find any options to allow this.

Answer 1

On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you can specify certain accounts to be "special accounts" that do not show-up on the logon screen.

Basically it is a list in the registry below the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLists

There you can create of each account name an DWORD of value 0 using the account name as the value name.

A detailed description including screen shots can be found here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/remove-user-accounts-from-the-logon-screen-in-windows-vista/