Hiding Users Icon on Welcome Screen
Some times we add users to our PC who will access their account only over a
network pc. But whenever we create a user account Windows xp adds it to the
welcome screen by default. Using the below trick, you can hide those users icons
from welcome screen. follow the steps as given.
- Start the registry editor.
- Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\
Userlist\ .
- Click your Right Mouse button in the right side empty space
- Create a new DWORD Value namely 'Username' and value '0'.
- Now that specified user's username will be hidden from welcome screen.
- If you want to unhide the username and icon on welcome screen,
just replace the data value of that 'Username' with a value of '1'.
Turning off Thumbs.db file creation
Thumbs.db files are used by windows xp to store movie or picture file preview
contents i.e. they store thumbnails of multimedia contents of current directory.
If you are having little hard disk space or if you dont want waist a large amount
of space for these files, you can use this trick to turn off creation of thumbs.db
files.
For Windows xp professional :-
- Click 'Run' from Start menu.
- Type 'gpedit.msc' and click 'OK'. This opens group policy editor
- Select User Configuration => Administrative Template => Windows
components => Windows Explorer.
- Find 'Turn off caching of thumbnail pictures' option and Enable it.
- Now, Windows xp stops creating thumbs.db files automatically.
For Windows xp Home Edition :-
- Go to Control Panel => Folder Options => View
- Enable 'Do not Cache Thumbnails' item.