Hide Users from XP Welcome Screen

We sometimes come across situations where we need a user on a machine, but don't want them showing up on the XP Welcome Screen to log in. For example, when setting up a network where XP machines share files, it is often necessary (or at least best) to set up users on each of those machines to specify file sharing access permissions. If you use the XP welcome screen this poses a problem because all of the users you add through your Local Users and Groups will show up there. These people aren't going to log in from your computer, so they really have no business showing up in a place like that!

A gentleman by the name of Doug Knox wrote a small VB Script just for this situation. All you have to do is download it, run it, and type the name of the user you want to hide from your welcome screen. He also wrote an accompanying script for adding a previously hidden user back onto the welcome screen.

Go here to download these scripts
Visit the rest of Doug's site here
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