Disabling Guest Account In XP
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In response to Diana Huggins’ The Guest Account Is The Hacker’s Holy Grail, Gnomie Brian writes:
You can disable the guest account completely. To do this, follow the steps below:
- Short Way
- Click Start
- Click Run
- Type control userpasswords2
- Press Enter
- Longer Way
- Click Start
- Go to All Programs
- Go to Administrative Tools
- Click Computer Management
- Click Local Users and Groups
- Double Click Users
- Right Click Guest
- Click Properties
- Make sure the Account is disabled check box has a check in it.
- Click Apply
- Click OK
Thanks, Brian!
2 Comments
Brian W. Humbrecht
January 25th, 2008
at 3:52pm
The procedures [at least 'Long Way'] doesn’t exist/work in WinXP Home.
I have SP-2+ installed. I can find User Accounts via the Control Panel [User Accounts twice if you have the Category View of Control Panel]; but, my ‘Guest’ account is already disabled & will not provide a Right Click menu. Using the ‘Short Way’ did not work on mine either; since, no ‘Guest’ account appeared under “Users” - maybe again because it was already disabled.
mike
February 5th, 2008
at 9:21am
use this as well:
start -> right click my computer (it may be on the desktop depending on your settings) select manage then under system tools -> local users and groups -> users
it should be listed under there and can be disabled.