Thursday, March 12, 2015

Unhide Administrator Profile for Windows XP or Windows 7

Some computers running under Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 7, their main Administrator Profile is hidden. You can unhide these profile by doing this steps.


1. Run Regedit
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\Userlist
3. Right-click in the work area and create a new DWORD entry.
4. Name it as Administrator and change it's value to 1 (show/unhide) or 0 (to hide it).
5. Exit the registry editor and reboot the PC



That's it. When you reboot/restart your PC, you should be able to see the Administrator Profile Icon on the startup screen.