RELATED: All the Features That Require a Microsoft Account in Windows 10 Note that if you hide a user account using this registry hack, you won’t even be able to use the Switch User menu on the Start menu to get to that user account, and the account will also be hidden from the UAC dialog prompt, the Control Panel, and even from the Settings app. The UserList key and all the user name values you added as values inside the UserList key are also deleted. If you want to show all the user accounts on the logon screen again, you can simply delete the SpecialAccounts key. If you want to show the account again, open the registry editor and change the value for the user name on the right that you want to show again to 1. NOTE: Make sure not to hide your last administrator account using this tweak, or you won’t be able to log in as an administrator anymore.Īt this point, the user account should be completely hidden from everywhere. Now, there are no other users listed in the lower-left corner of the logon screen. Log out of your Windows account by opening the Start menu, clicking on your user name in the upper-left corner, and selecting “Sign out”.
In the Registry Editor, use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinlogonĬreate a new key under the Winlogon key by right-clicking on the Winlogon key and then selecting New > Key from the popup menu. Press Enter to open Registry Editor, or click on regedit under Best match. Open the Registry Editor by clicking on Start and typing regedit. Now that you know the name of the user(s) you want to hide, we’ll tweak the registry to hide them. Microsoft accounts are listed by the email address of the account. NOTE: The way you can tell whether an account in the Users for this computer list is a local account is that local accounts are listed by the name you gave the account when you created it. RELATED: How to Create a New Local User Account in Windows 10 Click or “Cancel” to close the dialog box since you’re not making any changes here. Look in the “Users for this computer” list and note the exact name of the user(s) you want to hide. On the User Accounts dialog box, make sure the Users tab is active.
A quick way to do this is to press Windows+R on your keyboard and enter netplwiz in the Open box. Before changing the registry, we’ll check the exact name of the user(s) we want to hide.
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