I wish to deploy Spiceworks on my network and in order for this to work I need an administrative account on each machine (mostly Win 7 Home Premium, some Professional). What is the quickest and easiest way to create a new admin account that doesn't show up as an option on the login screen?

Hi. Create a user normally with administrator privileges and do this steps to hide the user from logon menu. at Run type regedit Once in regedit go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon In the left panel, right click on Winlogon and click New and click Key. Type SpecialAccounts and press Enter In the left panel, right click on SpecialAccounts and click New and click Key. Type UserList and press Enter. In right panel of UserList, right click on a empty area and click New then click DWORD (32bit) Value. Type in the name of the user account that you want to hide and press Enter.eg: Everyday Account. In the right panel, right click on the user account name and click Modify. To hide the user account – Type 0 and click OK. (number zero not the letter) Whenever you want to use the account just unhide the it by typing 1 instead of zero.I want to be a MVP! | Computer Technician - MCITP Enterprise Administrator 2008

Hi, If you have domian environment deployed, it is very easy to add a new account via GPP. If all the computers are stand-alone Windows 7. You may use Net User command to add account in elevated CMD. This means that you could compose a script and run it with administrative privilege to add a new administrator account. Regarding composing a script, please post the thread at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ITCG/threads/ for help. About hiding an acount, please refer to banmenau's post. Regards, Juke TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.Juke Chou TechNet Community Support

Hi, If you have domian environment deployed, it is very easy to add a new account via GPP. If all the computers are stand-alone Windows 7. You may use Net User command to add account in elevated CMD. This means that you could compose a script and run it with administrative privilege to add a new administrator account. Regarding composing a script, please post the thread at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ITCG/threads/ for help. About hiding an acount, please refer to banmenau's post. Regards, Juke TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com.Juke Chou TechNet Community Support

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Yes, I'm having a very simlar (if not identical) issue. I'm trying to get a batch to run as an Admin user (not elevated) via the Task Scheduler, but failing badly. The lack of a gpedit.msc in Home Premium is as annoying as it is baffeling as to why it should not be included. My guess (and without gpedit it is just a guess at the moment) is that the account is set to not allow non-interactive login. If I login as my Admin then I can run the script okay, but from the task scheduler it just doesnt want to play ball (same setup works fine in XP & 2008 etc). Once I've finally fixed it (looking like a registry hack) I'll stick the solution up incase anyone still interested.