If you’re like most people, you use the same username for both your computer and your online accounts. But what if you want to keep your username separate on different machines? Here’s how to remove the username from the Start Menu in XP. ..
I suppose this could also be used in reverse, if your start menu does not have the username you could check this registry setting. I’m quite sure that somebody somewhere will find a use for this topic.
Note that this only applies to the XP style menu, not the classic menus… since they don’t have the username anyway.
Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit.exe through the start menu run box, and then browse down to the following key:
Create a new DWORD value on the right-hand pane with the following values:
Name: NoUserNameInStartMenu Value: 1
To remove, either set the value to 0 or just delete the key. You will have to log off and back on to see the start menu without the username:
You could also remove the picture by deleting or renaming this folder:
Doing so would remove the picture from the login page as well, and it doesn’t remove the blue border across the top.
