best effort to "hide" Sandbox users#8492
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The elevated sandbox creates two new Windows users - CodexSandboxOffline and CodexSandboxOnline. This is necessary, so this PR does all that it can to "hide" those users. It uses the registry plus directory flags (on their home directories) to get them to show up as little as possible.