Hide Name In Start Menu In Windows

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Hide Name In Start Menu is another free utility by intelliadmin which lets you hide your name on the windows start menu at the top in windows xp

Start-Menu-With-Name Start-Menu -Without-Name

As Shown in the screenshot above you can see one with user name not hidden in the start menu and the second snapshot does not have the start menu text as username.

There are two methods with which you can remove or hide your name in start menu.

Method 1 : ( Geeky Way )

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press enter

2. Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer



3. And add the following dword value: NoUserNameInStartMenu and set it to 1 if it does not exist in the registry.

4. Exit Registry and Reboot your computer

Method 2: ( Using the Free Intelliadmin Utility )

1. Download this utility from here, double click to run it as it does require installation

Hide-User-Start-Menu

2. Click on the option which says Name removed from Start Menu

3. You may need to reboot after doing all this.

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Author + Admin: Abhishek Bhatnagar
Software Engineer by profession and blogger by passion, I blog about computer tips and tricks and solutions for computer problems. You can connect with me at twitter or know more about me on www.abhishekbhatnagar.com.

8 Comments

  1. Raju says:

    This used to happen on my PC all by itself without me ding anything :| I was worried it was some virus/malware, but could not find out till the end!!

  2. Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed says:

    Excuse me regedit.msc or regedit.exe ?

  3. abhishek says:

    @Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed – thanks for correcting that was a typo.

  4. Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed says:

    O.k , nothing happened, thanks.

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  6. Haraye says:

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