DigeratiPrime Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 I am using Vista Ultimate x86 SP1 and want to hide the built-in Administrator account from the logon screen but still have UAC show "Prompt for credentials". Unfortunately the following registry tweak seems to affect Secure Desktop globally...[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]"Administrator"=dword:00000000Is there another way (GPO?) to achieve the effect without the problem shown below?[EDIT] This even happens with "All elevation requests will go to the interactive users desktop" Enabledbefore tweakafter tweak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizban2 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 is there a specific reason the admin account needs to be on? You could change in the local security policy not to show the last logged on user so that you are prompted for an account to log on with. that way you don't need to tweak the admin account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 is there a specific reason the admin account needs to be on? You could change in the local security policy not to show the last logged on user so that you are prompted for an account to log on with. that way you don't need to tweak the admin accountWell a system with multiple User accounts will stop at the "Welcome Screen" (?) and see the Administrator account. I want the User accounts to be able to elevate to Administrator without being presented an easy way to go fully Administrator by just logging is as such. This would be useful for Family PC's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john demin Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 On a side note how can these messages be stopped?Everytime I'm on my wifes laptop (vista) this is displayed, its getting on my nerves!John Denim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 On a side note how can these messages be stopped?Everytime I'm on my wifes laptop (vista) this is displayed, its getting on my nerves!John Denim.Hey John I see you're relative new to MSFN See this topic: http://www.msfn.org/board/Guide-UAC-Cancel...ts-t120552.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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