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How-to remove or add the Administrator Account to the Windows XP Welcome Screen.

 

 

 
 

Published : April 25, 2005
Windows XP welcome-screen with the list of user accounts. The Windows XP Welcome Screen is useful and looks very nice, but it is not perfect. One of the side effects of this feature is that the default Administrator account will not be displayed on the screen if you have defined another user account with admin privileges. Since the account you can create during Windows XP setup adds the user to the Administrators group, the original Administrator account is not visible by default.

Also WindowsXP welcome-screen does not support domain authentication (logon), thus not displaying Domain's user accounts.

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  • Customizable welcome-screen. Better implemented LegalNotice's as well as other Logon messages on the Rohos welcome-screen. Special dialog for setting-up user accounts list on the welcome-screen.
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    Adding the Administrator Account to the Windows XP Welcome screen?

    1. Open Rohos window and select Set-up users link. This will open dialog box where you may select any user.



      Select an user account name (Administrator or any) and check or uncheck the "Display the user account on the welcome screen (login window)" checkbox.
      Rohos Center -> Windows Logon -> Setup user dialog box
      On the picture: Setup user accounts that will be visible on the welcome screen, review and limit user's work time.
    If you don't have installed Rohos Welcome to log on with the original Administrator account, you have a choice from the options:
    1. The second option is to boot in safe mode, under which the Welcome Screen will display only accounts with Administrator privileges, including the original Administrator account.
    2. The third option is to make the Administrator account the only user account with the administrative privileges. This means that you will have to remove all other users from the Administrators group with the help of the Computer Management console.
    Or you may use registry editor to configure user accounts dysplayed on the Welcome-screen:
    1. Start the Registry Editor
    2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Winlogon \ SpecialAccounts \ UserList \
    3. Right-click an empty space in the right panel and select New > DWORD Value
    4. Name the new value Administrator
    5. Double-click this new value, and enter 1 as its Value data
    6. Close the registry editor.

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