On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:52 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote:
> however, that user shouldn't show up on the "Welcome" friendly style login
> screen. OTOH, I'm not sure what mechanism is used to prevent this.
>
> ah, a little googling... on 32bit windows.. registry entry
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
>
> has a value with the username and a DWORD of 0x00000000 to block the user
> from being displayed. on 64bit Win7 at least, this is in
>
> HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
Is there a more universal, trans-windows platform api for a call to
make such a change? Especially a switch at account creation time.
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