Removing Administrator from Welcome Screen

LammypieLammypie
edited March 2005 in Science & Tech
as I become more and more security paranoid, I wish only the user accounts to be visible on the welcome screen, and no administrator accounts (that way people have to guess the administrator user name as well as the password, and it is not readily visible for people to mess with)

I wished to remove all of the administrator account from the welcome screen.
Most of the tech forums I visit seem to suggest that the welcome screen will always display an account with administrator rights. well I've just managed to get a welcome screen with only limited accounts displayed!

Some of you may know this - so apologies, many will not.


Create another Administrator account.
Use Tweakui to untick 'display administrator account'
untick 'display newadmin account'

all of the other user accounts are limited accounts only.

SO FAR, the welcome screen will not display 'newadminaccount' but will still display the original 'administrator' account even though tweakxp is set not to display it.

So having created a new administrator account. I simply disable the original 'administrator' account in computer managment.

NOW - NO administrator account is displayed on the welcome screen.

I can access the new administrator account I created by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL twice and inputting the userid and password.

This way none of the users have any idea of what account is the admin account, and seeing as the admin account is a complelety different name to administrator it makes hacking it VERY hard.


hope this helps somebody ;)

Comments

  • BLuKnightBLuKnight Lehi, UT Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Windows XP, right?

    If so, there is an article on TweakXP, http://www.tweakxp.com/article139573.aspx. This should fix it.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited March 2005
    Lammypie wrote:
    as I become more and more security paranoid, I wish only the user accounts to be visible on the welcome screen, and no administrator accounts (that way people have to guess the administrator user name as well as the password, and it is not readily visible for people to mess with)

    I wished to remove all of the administrator account from the welcome screen.
    Most of the tech forums I visit seem to suggest that the welcome screen will always display an account with administrator rights. well I've just managed to get a welcome screen with only limited accounts displayed!

    Some of you may know this - so apologies, many will not.


    Create another Administrator account.
    Use Tweakui to untick 'display administrator account'
    untick 'display newadmin account'

    all of the other user accounts are limited accounts only.

    SO FAR, the welcome screen will not display 'newadminaccount' but will still display the original 'administrator' account even though tweakxp is set not to display it.

    So having created a new administrator account. I simply disable the original 'administrator' account in computer managment.

    NOW - NO administrator account is displayed on the welcome screen.

    I can access the new administrator account I created by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL twice and inputting the userid and password.

    This way none of the users have any idea of what account is the admin account, and seeing as the admin account is a complelety different name to administrator it makes hacking it VERY hard.


    hope this helps somebody ;)
    Added to Tweaks and Tricks: http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?p=251378&posted=1#post251378
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