Comments on: Windows 7 – Creating A Hidden Account

By: CB

CB — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:52:21 +0000

I use it on my kids’ computers. Since they have admin rights and could easily delete my account thinking they’ve outsmarted the “old man”(oh, it was an accident). They never know it’s there.

It’s where I hide the parental control software. I see it as an asset should I need to gain access.

By: Nishkarsh

Nishkarsh — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:34:47 +0000

thnx, same reason as Edgar above.
YaY!

By: Edgar

Edgar — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:20:13 +0000

I needed to create that so i can have an account to log in over vpn and create backups.
It is too ugly to leave that as interactive login.
This post was helpful in getting that resolved.

Thank you.

By: Carroll B. Merriman

Carroll B. Merriman — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:31:17 +0000

Your RSS feed not work in my browser (google chrome) how can I sort it?

By: crakdit

crakdit — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:18:40 +0000

“you can activate the old Pre-XP login screen by hitting CTRL+Alt+Del at the login screen”

The windows 7 machine I’m working with doesn’t bring up the login box when hitting CTRL+Alt+Del ?? Nothing happens. I know on XP you had to hit it twice in a row but I can’t get it to work here.

By: Farscape

Farscape — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:41:26 +0000

The ‘use ctl-alt-del to get to a login prompt’ bit at the end doesn’t work. I suspect that most people reading this thread are looking for a way to log into hidden accounts– the XP method of pressing ctl-alt-del twice to get a login prompt has been disabled in Win 7.

Bad move, Microsoft. Organizations with public PCs don’t want to put a login entry for their administrator account on their opening screen– it’s a blatant, stupid security issue.

By: INIT_6

INIT_6 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:58:35 +0000

Must have, I thought he was talking about him doing that to protect him self some how. “but a security threat as well” This has nothing to do with security.

I re-read the article and I guess it’s just to help with clutter. what is cool I guess.

By: kanez

kanez — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:05:50 +0000

I think you missed the point about why it’s being hidden. It has nothing to do with protecting yourself in court.

By: INIT_6

INIT_6 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:15:03 +0000

That is fucking retarded. Why create a `Hidden` account. It wont help protect you in the courts. When they make a 1:1 copy of your drive and then analyze it. They will find everything. It’s not like you are creating a secret account and encrypting it so no one can get in.

By: ajehals

ajehals — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:46:58 +0000

A preference setting? Maybe one of those wizard things Windows is so keen on? Editing the registry is the single most insane way of dealing with the configuration of an OS I have ever come across, especially when the keys are nonsensical (and one of the reasons that Gnomes emulation of the registry by way of gconf-editor seems such a piss poor move).