I understood this, however I did want to be able to use it in the way also described -"If you're using a standard account, some programs might require you to provide an administrator password before you can perform certain tasks."
However when the admin account is hidden no option to enter the admin password as shown in a earlier message.
Windows 7 itself monitors itself and does cleanup on its own.
Action center keeps an eye on your temp files and other common things that slow your pc down. It will notify you if it finds anything.
CCleaner is recommended if your PC is running very slowly and windows doesn't detect it. Your action center will flag you for anything that needs done.
See here:
Optimize Windows for better performance - Microsoft Windows Help
If you are using a standard account, you should be prompted to input a password for the admin account in order to continue. Are you saying you are not? You are just being asked yes or no? Because that is not normal and should not be happening.
If this is indeed the case, try deleting the standard profile (user account) and recreating it.
Another way to lock things down more is to increase the UAC setting to the Highest.
User Account Control - UAC - Change Notification Settings
Is this what your looking for?
Log On with User Name and Password
@MourningStar
Wanted to add, the reason ccleaner is such an exception is the coding for the program is very well done. Also, the guy who made it did a lot of testing with Microsoft employees as well. Main point: It doesn't break things.
Also, the registry cleaner that comes with it only looks for complete registry proven keys that are NOT tied to anything at all. Just taking up room. This way it does not accidentally delete important keys that are needed or used. It is still wise to allow CCleaner to do a backup though just in case.
By the way, I use CCleaner all the time. I love it for cleaning friends PCs who have had their PCs for years and it gets a little slow. Although again, this happened more often on XP and Vista compared to 7.
@bhavz
Sorry about that. But yes unfortunately that is the way things have to be. The only other option is to use a completely custom log in screen, but that has some risks of mucking stuff up. So I will not go into that.
Windows Rule: A Pc must have an admin account. No way around this.
Still not sure why you need to hide the admin account from the login screen in the first place. If the account has a strong password, it is relatively safe from trying to break in. Unless they run a special boot tool to get into the registry and change the password. But this is more advanced. So if you do not mind me asking, why would you need to do this?
The standard account like I said should prompt a UAC window asking for the admin password on a standard account when installing programs, changing critical settings by default. The highest UAC setting will not allow them to change any windows settings for any reason without a UAC box prompting for the admin password.
Enabling the built in admin account is not recommended, and is unnecessary in 99% of circumstances.
(Their are extremely rare circumstances)
A regular admin account should be more than suffice. Then the standard accounts will follow.
I recommend if you do have the built in special admin account turned on, to turn that off and just use a standard admin account. And then the standard users. The built in admin account can be very dangerous leaving that turned on. (Coming from a security standpoint)
Hence, this is why it is disabled by default.
@andrew129260
Thanks for your reply, the reason I wanted to hide the admin user was to avoid the two login's at the login screen, also since using the interactive login I have found that it takes twice as long to show the desktop for any user.
Unfortunately the UAC prompts do not allow for a admin password when the admin account is hidden, hence the start of this thread and request to see if anyone had overcome this.
Is it possible you have too many programs running at start up that could cause this?
Could you maybe post a screenshot of msconfig startup tab?
Start-run-msconfig
Also from your screenshot I see its asking for you to type the password but does not have a place to type it. I know what you saying below, but lets try the following below for giggles.
Have you tried running sfc /scannow?
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Ok, gotcha.
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