Windows – how to create a hidden administrator account in window 7

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i am working on Window 7 Home Premium. Many time i share my laptop with my friends. i want to create a guest account for simple working. i wish there should be some superuser administrator account, to which i can login using command prompt and do every administrator functions from my guest account. i dont want the login screen to show my administrator account. it should be a hidden account. does window 7 by default have any hidden administrator account.

Best Answer

  • Create a new user and add it to the administrator group
  • Open Regedit.exe and navigate to:

Local Machine:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts

Create a new key 'UserList', under it create a REG_DWORD value with the name of your new user and a value of 0

or use Powershell:

New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts"
New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList"
New-ItemProperty -path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList" -name myNewUserName -value "0" -propertyType DWord

You may have to reboot, but the new user should not show up on the logon screen. I've never used any home editions, so I don't know how they behave.

I don't recommend to activate the disabled administrator account, there is no UAC for it.

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