Hide administrator account from Welcome screen

Setting up a new laptop (Win 7 Professional), and i enable the administrator account so i can access the PC's from the server, but it started showing on the Welcome screen as a user, which i didn't want.

Found this http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-create-hidden-user-account-hide-user-account-from-welcome-screen-in-windows/

1. Run Registry Editor (RegEdit.exe).
2. Navigate to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList
   
   Note: If SpecialAccounts and UserList is not found, create new sub-key and name them accordingly.
3. Select UserList, and in the right pane, right click on any blank space, and point to New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value.
4. Name the new DWORD registry value name as the exact same name that match the name of the user account to be hidden. For example, if the user ID of the user account is John, the name the registry value as John.
5. Double click on DWORD registry value, and set the value data to 0 in order to hide the account from Welcome Screen. Tip: To display the user account on Welcome Screen again so that it’s visible again, delete the registry entry, or set the value data to 1.
6. Exit Registry Editor.
7. Log off or restart computer to make the change effective.

Adobe Reader X extract msi

Trying to extract the msi for Adobe Reader X so i can deploy it over a network - old methods i used to use for 8 didn't work.

Searched and found this http://forums.adobe.com/message/3464880

Basically, need to download the offline installer from Adobe, open a command line and enter:

AdbeRdr1010_en_US.exe -nos_o"" -nos_n
(don't put a trailing \ at the end of the file path)

Don't hit cancel yet! Make a copy of the files in that location, then you can select cancel on the install - it will then automatically delete the folder it just created, with all the files in.

Been a bit crap...

At updating my blog, but have now moved it to my domain, and now aiming to start updating it again with my IT findings.

Have also read about clickochet on Cringely's website: http://www.cringely.com/2011/05/what-the-heck-is-a-clickochet/ and was interested in how it worked, so have added their ads on my blogger page.