Re: The Vanishing Administrator Account (XP)

From: John M. Gamble (jgamble@ripco.com)
Date: 06/13/02 

From: jgamble@ripco.com (John M. Gamble)
Date: 13 Jun 2002 17:57:25 GMT

In article <ke9ggu0d9b6tk523pqa3qa10v49sksv38m@4ax.com>,
 <chris@nospam.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:14:02 +0200, "John van Poelgeest"
><john@poelgeest.org> wrote:
>
>>Press CTRL_ALT_DEL twice on the welcome screen. You'll now get a Windows
>>2000 like logon box, which you can use to log the administrator on.
>

Thank you, it worked like a charm.

>
>I noticed that the admin account disappears are soon as you create
>other accounts. Any idea how you can make other accounts not visible
>on the 'home' login? I have a few service accounts that I'd rather
>not display, but haven't been annoyed enough to hunt down where to set
>this.
>

Ah, this probably explains my confusion - i did have the Administrator
and other user account visible on the Welcome screen, but it vanished
*after* i finally figured out not to let the accounts stay logged on
when i shut down the machine.

I'd still like to pick-and-choose which accounts are visible on Welcome.
Any thoughts, anyone?

        -john

February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.

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