How to hide a user from vista welcome screen?

After some googling I have still no awnser to this question.
So maybe channel9 has an awnser?

use the CTRL + ALT + DEL way.

Thanx

I will try it shortly.

OK, the user is hidden, but unfortunately the press twice Ctrl+Alt+Del behavior to get the classic login does not work. :O

Hi there, well im not too sure for what reason you are trying to hide a user. But I will give you my solution that worked for my purposes. Basically I had created some extra accounts for network shares and for no other reason, so there was no need for the accounts to show up on the  welcome screen. To fix this I right clicked on "My Computer" and selected "Manage". From there go to your user settings and edit the desired user to be hidden. In thier account type, remove "Users" from the type and add them to the "Remote desktop users" group. Make sure they aren't an administrator either. Well hope this helps.

soldieroftruth said:

Hi there, well im not too sure for what reason you are trying to hide a user. But I will give you my solution that worked for my purposes. Basically I had created some extra accounts for network shares and for no other reason, so there was no need for the accounts to show up on the  welcome screen. To fix this I right clicked on "My Computer" and selected "Manage". From there go to your user settings and edit the desired user to be hidden. In thier account type, remove "Users" from the type and add them to the "Remote desktop users" group. Make sure they aren't an administrator either. Well hope this helps.

golightlygl said:

soldieroftruth said:

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Brilliant solution.  I had previously messed around with registry hacks and all sorts but this is absolutely ideal.  My needs were identical to yours and I'm pleased to say that it works perfectly.

Thanks for the tip

soldieroftruth said:

Hi there, well im not too sure for what reason you are trying to hide a user. But I will give you my solution that worked for my purposes. Basically I had created some extra accounts for network shares and for no other reason, so there was no need for the accounts to show up on the  welcome screen. To fix this I right clicked on "My Computer" and selected "Manage". From there go to your user settings and edit the desired user to be hidden. In thier account type, remove "Users" from the type and add them to the "Remote desktop users" group. Make sure they aren't an administrator either. Well hope this helps.

I employ a similar method. But instead of adding the user to the Remote Desktop Users group (because I don't want to give them terminal access), I created a new group named Network Users. I've given the group permission to access the network shares but did not add the group to the list of groups permitted to logon locally, so they are not listed on the Welcome Screen.