If you hide an account, you can access it from the Welcome screen by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL twice. You'll get the older style logon dialog. Type in the username and password.
To unhide a user, and make them show up on the Welcome Screen
Save To unhide.vbs
'xp unhide users - Unhides an XP User account from the Welcome screen
'Power By Gitem
Option Explicit
'On Error Resume Next
Set ws = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim ws, t, p1, cn, errnum
p1 = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList\"
t = "UnHide XP User Account"
cn = InputBox("Enter the Username to unhide and click OK", t, "")
If cn <> "" Then
ws.RegDelete p1 & cn
Err.Clear
errnum = Err.Number
If errnum = 0 Then
MsgBox cn & "will show on the Welcome Screen",4096,"Done!"
Else
MsgBox "Please make sure you entered a valid user name",4096,"Error!"
End If
End If
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