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re: Hide user account?
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 9:56 pm
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Posted by NigelHH (1324 messages posted)


This is a potential problem they seemed to have almost ignored with Vista. I have 
looked and looked and, unless in safe mode or classic logon, there is no way to logon 
to an account not on the Welcome screen. Looks like Windows 7 is the same.

I have even seen claims the the original double Ctrl-Alt-Delete in XP was kludge: 
"a fallback just in case there turned out to be some important logon scenario that 
the new Welcome screen failed to cover, but which the designers had failed to take 
into account by simple oversight. Scenarios such as smartcard or fingerprint logon."

I think the only way to logon as Administrator is through safe mode - which is enough 
if you need to fix a corrupt profile, I guess... 



Written in response to:
re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Monday, July 20, 2009 at 9:27 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Friday, July 24, 2009 at 5:57 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Hide user account? (Steve B: Fri, Jul 17, 2009, 7:07 am)
-re: Hide user account? (Ilya1: Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 10:14 am)
-re: Hide user account? (Ilya1: Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 2:59 pm)
-re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Sat, Jul 18, 2009, 5:16 pm)
*re: Hide user account? (Ilya1: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 2:46 am)
-re: Hide user account? (Ilya1: Sun, Jul 19, 2009, 3:06 am)
-re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:05 am)
-re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:27 am)
-re: Hide user account? (NigelHH: Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 9:56 pm)
-re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 5:57 am)
-re: Hide user account? (NigelHH: Fri, Jul 24, 2009, 6:08 pm)
-re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Sat, Jul 25, 2009, 6:08 am)
-re: Hide user account? (Steve B: Sat, Jul 25, 2009, 6:25 am)
*re: Hide user account? (Izomiac: Sun, Jan 17, 2010, 3:04 am)
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