hiding the default administrator

[Guest tuuf]

I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the

administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default

administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and

running.

[Guest John McGaw]

Re: hiding the default administrator

 

tuuf wrote:

> I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the

> administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default

> administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and

> running.

 

Well, this page

 

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_wel_screen.htm

 

tells you how to reveal the administrator login so maybe simply reversing

the procedure will hide it?

 

John McGaw

http://johnmcgaw.com

[Guest Remedy]

RE: hiding the default administrator

 

It would be easiest to just install something like TweakXp which can do that

for you easily as well as other tasks.

 

http://www.tweakxp.com/tweakutility/download.aspx

 

Once it has installed run the program, in the left hand menu you need to

select

 

System & Security > Log On > then un-check the show "Administrator" on

welcome screen item & Show admin on welcome screen

 

This should fix your problem

[Guest Nightowl]

Re: hiding the default administrator

 

tuuf <tuuf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Mon, 11 Aug 2008:

>I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the

>administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default

>administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and

>running.

 

 

It won't appear on the Welcome screen as a login choice once you create

another user account with admin privileges (unless you use Kelly's

tweak, of course :-)

 

--

Nightowl

[Guest BillW50]

Re: hiding the default administrator

 

Nightowl wrote on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:59:21 +0100:

> tuuf <tuuf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Mon, 11 Aug 2008:

>

>> I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the

>> administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the default

>> administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and

>> running.

>

> It won't appear on the Welcome screen as a login choice once you create

> another user account with admin privileges (unless you use Kelly's

> tweak, of course :-)

 

I don't know about Kelly's tweak, but I seem to recall all I do is to

just rename it to something else.

 

--

Bill

Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)

MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB

Windows XP Home SP2 (120GB HD)

Intel® 910GML (64MB shared)

[Guest Patrick Keenan]

Re: hiding the default administrator

 

 

"tuuf" <tuuf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:BCDE5756-DDC0-4C2F-A10D-B6FC3D548C1B@microsoft.com...

>I remember when you first install xp you are asked whether you want the

> administrator account to be hidden. My question is how to hide the

> default

> administrator account later on --- after the OS is already installed and

> running.

 

All you need to do to have it not appear on the Welcome screen is to create

another account.

 

If you want to protect that account, give it a decent password so that

people can't just find where you hid it and use it.

 

HTH

-pk