Add Administrator Account on Windows XP Login Screen

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Are you tired of not seeing the administrator account on your Windows XP login screen? Do you want to add it back? You can do so by editing the Windows registry. In this post, we’ll walk you through the steps to add the administrator account on your Windows XP login screen.

To start, let’s open the Registry Editor on your Windows XP system. Press the Start button and type “regedit” in the search bar. Click on the result to open the Registry Editor. Alternatively, you can press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog box, type “regedit,” and press Enter.

Once you’ve opened the Registry Editor, navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList

This is where we’ll make our changes. To do so, click on the Edit menu and select New > DWORD (32-bit). This will create a new key called “administrator” with a value of 0.

To add the administrator account to the login screen, we need to change this value to 1. So, double-click on the “administrator” key and change its value to 1.

Alternatively, you can use a script to add the administrator account to your registry. If you’re not comfortable editing the registry manually, this is a good alternative.

If you’d like to try the script method, follow these steps:

  1. Open Notepad or any other text editor.
  2. Copy and paste the following code into the document:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList]
"administrator"=dword:00000001
  1. Save the file with a .reg extension (e.g., “add_admin_account.reg”).
  2. Run the file by double-clicking on it.

The registry will be updated, and you should see the administrator account on your login screen.

To remove the administrator account from the login screen, simply change its value back to 0 using the same steps as above.

That’s it! With these simple steps, you’ve successfully added the administrator account to your Windows XP login screen.