How to Disable/Hide Administrator Account in Windows 7-Vista Welcome Screen Logon
by: Revengsky Joseph D. Reyes (a.k.a. rjdreyes – jcyberinux.com)

1. Click Window Button then used the search entry, type cmd.

From the program list, right-click it then click Run as administrator.

2. At the command prompt, type: net user administrator /active:no

You will see a message that the command completed successfully. Close the command prompt afterwards.

3. Go to Control Panel, from the category view, go to User Accounts and Family Safety section. From there, click Add or remove user accounts.

If you are at the large icons view (All Control Panel Items), click User Accounts.

From there, click Manage another account.

4. From there, you’ll able to see on the Manage account. You will see that the Administrator account is not visible or activated.

5. To do further effectiveness on disabling the administrator account, check the Administrator status if disable. To do that, go to Control Panel, then click to Administrative Tools, click Local Security Policy, then Local Policies and then click to Security Options.

6. From the right panel, you will see the Policy and Security Settings. Check on Accounts: Administrator account status if Disable. If not, Double-click it and change to Disabled. Click Apply and Ok.

After the settings all complete, restart your computer, now the administrator account is not visible on the Windows 7/Vista Welcome Screen Logon.

How to Enable/Unhide the Administrator Account? Simple. You can reverse the process of this tutorial. 🙂

Try to explore its usages, then comment here if you found one interesting to share.
That’s all! I hope this guide and tips helps you out! Cheers! 😀

(Note: Microsoft(Windows 7/Vista OS) Logo/Images/Pictures has a respective copyright. I used it for demonstration purpose only.)

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