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Howto Show administrator account on welcome screen in XP

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May 042008
 

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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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 Posted by ruchi at 6:53 pm  Tagged with: Show administrator account on welcome screen in XP, Show administrator account on welcome screen in XP regi

  8 Responses to “Howto Show administrator account on welcome screen in XP”

  1. drashy says:
    September 3, 2008 at 5:46 am

    thx, this really works! ;)

    Reply
  2. Don says:
    May 20, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    THANK YOU!!

    Reply
  3. fussyd3vil says:
    August 14, 2009 at 8:53 am

    Yep, works really well.

    Reply
  4. chad graham says:
    April 4, 2010 at 2:04 am

    thanks,works good.

    Reply
  5. CMOORE says:
    August 6, 2010 at 5:17 pm

    thanks for the tip. This worked and my customer who wanted it to show was very happy.

    Reply
  6. Anuj Chaudhary says:
    August 29, 2010 at 11:43 am

    Thanks it worked…. thanks a lot

    Reply
  7. Ali says:
    January 17, 2011 at 1:03 pm

    thank you so much.
    it works!

    Reply
  8. ensan geded says:
    January 4, 2012 at 7:25 am

    very thanks for u :)

    Reply

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