Identifying special accounts

If I remember correctly, accounts that don't have local
login rights don't
show up in the Welcome Screen--if that's what you mean by
"special".  I
would expect (and hope) that SUPPORT_388945a0 doesn't have
local login
rights.

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:13:47 -0800, Mont Rothstein
<mont.rothsteinGMAIL.COM> wrote:

>I am trying to display a list of users on the local
computer.  I am using
>DirectoryEntry().Children to get all of the objects and
looking for
>SchemaClassName = "User".
>
>I then remove any users that are in the SpecialAccounts
list.
>
>However, there appears to be a way to flag accounts as
special other than:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows
>NTCurrentVersionWinlogonSpecialAccountsUserList
>
>Does anyone know how this is done?
>
>For example on my machine I have a __vmware_user__
account, and a
>SUPPORT_388945a0 that I would like to remove but I can't
find where/how
they
>are flagged as special accounts.

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