hiding the default administrator

[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.

 

[John McGaw]

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

 

[Remedy]

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

 

[Nightowl]

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

 

[BillW50]

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(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

 

[Patrick Keenan]

"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