re: Hide user account?
Friday, July 24, 2009 at 5:57 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve B
(1909 messages posted)
Yes, I miss XP's ace in the hole, namely the Administrator account.
You say you can log on to Administrator via safe mode. I'm not so sure. I could
be wrong, but I think that only works if all the other admin accounts have their
disabled bit turned on, or some other thing like that.
I'm concerned about my admin account getting clobbered. Maybe the password gets
clobbered. I don't think Win7 is smart enough to figure that out and allow safemode
login to Administrator.
I think I will create a second admin account that will be hidden from the logon screen,
but will be usable by a non-admin account to run programs using the "Run as different
user".
Ilya1 explained to me how to run regedit this way, so I can unhide the second admin
account. For whatever reason, we communicated via PM, so you won't see the posts
here. You may know this already, hold down the shift key and right click on an .exe
file. In this case it would be the System32\regedit32.exe file.
It seems a bit Rube Goldbergesque to me, but it works.
I guess Microsoft thinks it would be extremely rare to have the admin account get
clobbered, or maybe Microsoft just doesn't think. :) Anyway, I feel naked and exposed
running with just one account that can give me admin access.
I was a Boy Scout and my motto is "Be Prepared". :) When I figure out how to do
an unattended install of Win7, I will have it generate the second admin account along
with the usual ones.
On Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 9:56 pm, NigelHH wrote:
>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 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...
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- re: Hide user account? (NigelHH: Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 9:56 pm)
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