A "HIDDEN" user account on XP HOME

[Bob Sheen]

I am having a Windows XP Home edition computer at my home. Few days ago I created a new Admin User Account with “Limited” privileges. So far it was working fine and visible on the logon screen. Yesterday due to some reason I tried changing it from “Limited” to “Normal” using control userpasswords2. It appeared to be done file but when I restarted the computer next time it is just not visible on the screen.

Now I can only see the one Admin account that is mine and not the second that I changed yesterday. However when I press Ctrl+Alt+Del I can login with that username and password but it is no visible on the normal login window. Secondly. I thought to delete this account and create a new one but surprisingly it is also no t available under User Accounts in Control panel.

Any idea how can I fix this issue?

[Allanoo]

Just try out these steps and see if it works. Login with your Administrator account and go to Start, click RUN and open CMD. Now enter the following command:

net localgroup users /add USERACCOUNT

Note: Replace “useraccount” with the correct name of the account. You will get a message saying that the command has completed successfully. Now go check Control Panel User Accounts and hopefully that account should be visible now.

[T.J.]

Yeah, that’s correct. I have used in past and it has worked many times. If in case the command wont work for you than simply enter try this:

NET USERS <account> /DELETE

This will delete that account from the system.