20160516

Add a user and hide from logon screen

This tip on how to add a user without adding them to the logon screen got me wanting to try that out on Windows 10.  So, I went in there.

Here is the list of users initially with the net users command:
I can add bob with net user bob pass /add
This adds bob, and bob is now on the home screen (you can note my anonymizing edits):
We can take a look at the registry with reg query "HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\winlogon"
Next, we can add bob to the registered 'special accounts' that do not appear on the logon screen with reg add "hklm\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\winlogon\specialaccounts\userlist" /v bob /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Then, taking a look at the logon screen, there is no sign of bob:
And that's that.  Thanks to Jose Quinones for the initial how-to.

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