Solved Removing "Other user" from login page.

[truckman]

For some reason all of a sudden my machine is showing two users: myself and "Other user". I do not need to show "Other user" as I am the only person who uses the machine, and until this morning I was the only user shown.

How do I hide the "Other user" from the login page?

Trivial I know - but annoying...


Regards.

 

[richc46]

I think it is more important to be sure that it is not a major problem.
Run your antivirus and download and run malwarebytes. Update and run full scan.
If it show nothing, we can either hide the profile or try to delete it.
User Account - Hide - Vista Forums
Works on 7, too.

 

[truckman]

Completed as described. All is fine. Running Windows 7 - sorry I should have said that...

Regards.

 

[richc46]

Glad that I could help.

 

[truckman]

Should have been more descriptive:

I ran the antivirus and that was all fine. Still having the issue of two user accounts showing up in the login page.

Love to sort that one out!!

Regards.

 

[richc46]

Sorry misunderstood. Glad that I did not close the thread. Did you follow the tutorial that I gave in my first post?

 

[truckman]

Yes I did. I followed method 1 and the "account is disabled" checkbox is disabled.

Still no luck...

 

[richc46]

The registry change should have worked; did you try that one, too?

 

[truckman]

That has not worked either.

When doing method 2 do I simply type "Other User" for the account name?

Regards.

 

[richc46]

You have no other name to use.
This will be my last post for the night. You will be helped again tomorrow, unless another member jumps in.

Assuming that the other account is due to corruption, try this
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

Have you tried deleting it in the normal fashion?
Does any one else have access t the compter?
Did you run an antivirus scan?
Did you download and run malwarebytes. UPdate and run full scan?

 

[truckman]

Thank you for your assistance so far. I did a "system restore" and the issue has gone away - but that is not the point - I would still like to know what caused it. The only thing that I can think of - that changed - was I clicked "yes" when the "HP Protecttools" dialog came up, so I guess it installed or activated it.

That is the only change that was made from one login to the next, where all of a sudden I have "Myself" and "Other user" coming up in the login page.

Regards.

 

[richc46]

I really cannot tell you what caused the problem. Perhaps if others come by they may have a suggestion.

 

[Nasir]

Hello,

I have a similar problem as Truckman had.

I ran a full scan on my system partition with antivirus.
Then, I also scanned with the same partition with Malwarebytes.
In registry there is no "Other user" to be delated.

I also extecuted sfc /scannow but it showed no problems.

I can still see unwanted "other user" account on window login.




Please help me to get rid of this.
I will be very grateful for any help.

Best Regards