Hide users in the Start menu of Windows 10

Previously, in order to change the user in the operating system used, it was necessary to perform various working manipulations: restarting the system, rebooting the system, etc., but everything changed dramatically at the time when Windows 10 was released. In order for users have direct access to the computer and want to quickly log into the system under their profile, the developers of the program were offered a kind of know-how that looks like the ability to access the list of users immediately after moving to the m The "Start" menu. All would be nothing, but there were those of you who do not like this function, because they believe that it is necessary to hide users in the Start menu of Windows 10 in order to have them minimal access to strangers.

Of course, everyone approaches the concealment of users in different ways, but we believe that it is best to use the capabilities of the operating system for this, since it has all the capacities and options for this. That's why, we will now tell you how to act if you have the editions of the OS "Professional" or "Home".

How can I hide users on the Start menu of Windows 10 Professional?

First of all, you should look to the "Local Group Policy Editor", as there is nothing to do except it, you will not be able to make the necessary settings to the operating system. Opening the "Editor..." is done using the command "gpedit.msc". Now, you just have to proceed along the following path: find the item "Computer Configuration" and open it → go to "Administrative Templates" → then open "System" → next item that we are interested in and which you need to login to "Login" → Look for the policy "Hide entry points for quick user switching" (it is located in the right part of the window) → double-click on it with the left mouse button, which will open a new window in which you need to tick the "Enable" about ".

In this case, you do not need to restart anything and the correctness of the actions you performed in order to hide users in the Start menu of Windows 10 will be visually visible after a few seconds.

How to hide users in the Start menu of Windows 10 Home?

If you do not like the above method in order to hide users, then you should refer to this, because here we will work with the "Registry Editor" and directly use the tweak registry, which works fine.

In order to use the registry tweak you need, you should use the "regedit" command → now you are in the "Registry Editor" window where you should use this path to get to where we need it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System → in the right part of the window that opens, you will have to find the "HideFastUserSwitching" parameter (it happens that there is no 32-bit parameter named "HideFastUserSwitching", then it is created by the user using the context menu ) → the found parameter of prescribing it a value of "1» → restart the operating system and admire the work done, so how did you manage hide user menu «Start» Windows 10 completely.

If you are interested in hiding from the prying eyes of only a specific user (currently used), then you will need to use this path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ System. The rest of the log of actions that you have to perform, does not differ from what is described for mass concealment of users.

So, relatively quickly and spending on it is not so much time, as it might seem initially, you managed to make specific settings in your operating system and not what kind of third-party software to use to great happiness this time did not have to.