Tweak Library – Hide the “User Accounts” system icon in Control Panel.

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Hide the “User Accounts” system icon in Control Panel.

You can customize the display of the Control Panel applets. With this setting, you can hide the "User Accounts" system icon from the current applets group.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003

Description:

Control Panel is a repository of various applets/administrative tools that can be used to configure the Windows, applications and services environment. If you go to Start > Settings and select Control Panel, Windows will open the Control Panel window. This setting can hide the "User Accounts" system icon from the current applets list displayed in Control Panel.

"User Accounts" permits adding/removing user accounts to and from your computer and assign rights and privileges to them.

For this, go to Start > Run, enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a string value "nusrmgr.cpl" in "don’t load" sub key, if this value does not exist. Setting the Value Data to "No" will hide the system icon "User Accounts" in Control Panel.

The changes will take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
In the Control Panel window, the "User Accounts" system icon is shown by default. If you'd like to display this icon again, you can delete the registry value name "nusrmgr.cpl".

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Hide User Accounts in Control Panel.reg

The '.reg' file can hide "User Accounts" system icon in Control Panel.

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Show User Accounts in Control Panel (Default).reg

The ‘.reg’ file can display the “User Accounts” system icon in Control Panel.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

nusrmgr.cpl

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

The system icon "User Accounts" is hidden in the Control Panel item list.

The system icon "User Accounts" reappears in the Control Panel window.

First, click the Start button, and select Run. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit"

Second, go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load\] and right-click to create a String Value "nusrmgr.cpl" by right-clicking in the open area.

Next, right-click to modify the value of created string “nusrmgr.cpl”.

Finally, set the Value Data as “No” in the textbox provided and click on 'OK' .