Howto Show administrator account on welcome screen in XP
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If you wish the built in administrator account to be available from the welcome screen so you can log in as the administrator easily, there’s a registry hack to allow this.
Procedure to follow
Click on Start—>Run type regedit click ok
Navigate the following key from left pane
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Add the DWORD value ‘Administrator’ with a value of ‘1′
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thx, this really works!
THANK YOU!!
Yep, works really well.