problem: a friend and his family have just got their pc back from re-installation and wish to have everyones login reduced to limited user
what im not doing: disabling the graphical login screen
this instance applies specifically to xphome, but can translate to pro dependent on its applied use. as you no doubt know, winxp home requires at least one user account with admin rights in addition to the existing administrator account, which can only log on in safe mode. the idea is to setup an account with admin rights, hide it from the graphical logon screen and leave all additional users as 'limited users'. this situation isnt really scalable as adding any additional users and basic admin right dependent tasks cannot be performed from user only accounts, but my friend was ok with this.
so, create your user scheme then, as a member of admin navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
create a dword named the account name that you wish to hide, and assign the hex value '0'. if you need to log in under this account, 'ctrl-alt-del' x2 at the glogin screen and enter your credentials. easy!
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