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Remove user from Windows 7 Professional logon menu

I use a single administrative user, say MARC, on my laptop running Win 7 Pro.
I set up another user, say ANDROID, to allow my phone and tablet to reach one and only one shared folder on my laptop via ES File Explorer.
Everything works as expected.

BUT

Now that I have more than 1 user, I get the Welcome menu with MARC & ANDROID. I want to keep ANDROID for the share, but go straight to MARC when I sign on. ANDROID will never need to sign on at the laptop.

Suggestions?

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HackettstownComputerMedic

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HackettstownComputerMedic

Actually for me, I found that I had to actually click on the "netplwiz" program that came up rather than just hit enter.

CranberryFog

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This works perfectly for me. I accept it as my solution. However, I would really like to know if there is a way I can remove the ANDROID user from the menu, leaving MARC intact, in case I wanted to password protect MARC. This is easy in Windows Server. No counterpart in 7?

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CranberryFog

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OK. I knew about #1, but don't want users unnecessarily in the registry. #3 would work, but was not quite what I wanted. I was looking for something like User Rights under Administrative tools in Server 2008 R2. #2 is right on the money. Iw works, and yes, I verified the share works as well.

I am faced with two complete, excellent answers to my question as originally worded. So, I have doubled the points and awarded to both HackettstownComputerMedic and footech. Many thanks - I will use both solutions often.

HackettstownComputerMedic

Thank you. :)