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Hiding Windows User Accounts

2010/03/022010/02/27 by himuraken

Interested in creating a hidden local maintenance account for a Windows box? Is easy to do, just go to the registry under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList, create a new dword and name it the exact same as the account you want to hide. A value of “0” hides the account and a value of “1” displays it at … Read more

Steering Windows User Profiles via the Registry

2009/06/05 by himuraken

If you have ever had to join a pre-existing user/profile to a Windows domain, then you certainly know the pain that comes with migrating the old profile. Very few users find new (read clean) profiles very entertaining. So most people copy the contents of the previous profile’s folder to the new one. That approach does … Read more