TFS users are displaying at Windows 7 startup

Question

I installed TFS on Windows 7 and added TFS users as Windows users.

Everything works fine.

However, now every time Windows 7 starts, I can see all those TFS users on my startup screen, and I need to select my own user icon to enter my desktop.

Can I do something so that those TFS users would not be displayed at Windows startup?

Answer 1

You can hide these service users by adding them to the SpecialAccounts list in the Registry.

Add the user as a new DWORD value to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

Set the name of the value to the username and set the value to 0 (zero) to hide it.

More info here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/02/21/how-to-create-hidden-user-account-hide-user-account-from-welcome-screen-in-windows/