How to make the administrator account appear on the login screen?

When installing Windows XP, if an administrator account is set up, the system's built-in Administrator account without password protection will not appear in the user login list. Although it is behind the scenes, it has the highest authority of the system. In order to facilitate operation and ensure system security, you can set a password for it first, and then invite it to the front. The specific methods are introduced below.

1. Log in using the "traditional login prompt"

When starting the system to the welcome screen, press the "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" key combination twice and enter in the login box that appears The user name and password of the Administrator account are enough. You can also click "Start → Control Panel", double-click the "User Account" icon, in the pop-up "User Account" window, click "Change how users log in or log out", and remove the check before "Use the Welcome Screen" box, click "Apply Options" to directly enter the Administrator account name and password to log in at startup.

2. Display the Administrator account on the login welcome screen

Click "Start → Run", enter regedit and press Enter, open the registry editor, and expand "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE" \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList" branch, create a dword value below, the name is your account name (administrator), change the value of Administrator on the right to 1, you can make the Administrator account appear in Log in to the welcome screen.

3. Automatically log in to the Administrator account

Click "Start → Run", enter control userpasswords2 and press Enter. In the opened "User Account" window, remove "Use this machine" , the check box in front of "User must enter password", after pressing "Apply", enter the Administrator account password in the pop-up "Automatic login" window (Figure 1), and press "OK" twice. Note: If you have set up automatic login for other accounts, you should first select the check box before "To use this machine, the user must enter a password", click "Apply" and then uncheck the selected check box. You can also modify the registry to achieve automatic login, but it is not as convenient as the above method.

Of course, if you do not need an Administrator account, you can open "Start → Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Computer Management" in order. In the "Computer Management" window, expand "System Tools → Local Users and Groups → Users" , double-click the Administrator account in the window to the right of "Users", select the check box in front of "Account has been deactivated" in the pop-up "Properties" window (Figure 2), and press "OK" to deactivate the Administrator account.