How to make the login account pic transparent?

Can you make a transparent .png or .gif in photoshop with no "picture", just a blank image and use that as your pic.

r0wnin said:

Can you make a transparent .png or .gif in photoshop with no "picture", just a blank image and use that as your pic.

Yes. What happens is when you use Windows 10 to pick a profile picture, it takes a copy of it and creates a jpg of different sizes for use in various places where the picture will be used. Unfortunately, jpg format itself doesn't support transparency.

So, what you have to do is modify the registry to point to a different file than the jpg's that are created, a file that has transparency.

1. Get psexec, a tool that comes from microsoft itself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...wnloads/psexec
2. open the registry using psexec (not sure if it's necessary, but I open cmd with admin rights, cd "c:\path\to\where\I\extracted psexec"
3. psexec -i -s regedit.exe
4. this will open the registry editor (use at your own risk). in the location bar, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountPicture\Users
5. go to the S-whatever that's associated with the account who's picture you're trying to change
6. you'll see values that are paths to pictures. If you try going to the paths, it will not show anything, but if you copy the full path and try to open it, you can see the pictures themselves ... your current profile pics
7. change those values to point to where you have your transparent image saved. Don't worry so much about getting the sizes correct. I used a single-pixel transparent gif saved in the same location as my wallpapers to simply blank out the picture altogether (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ransparent.gif).
8. Notice that the default place that it keeps these pictures, though is in the Users\Public folder ... I presume that this was not just to make certain it's readily accessible to the system and to outside users, but also to prevent the possibility of intrusion using the profile picture. But maybe I'm giving them too much credit.

I was just recently following my own instructions here and noticed I left something out. If you don't see an S-whatever under the Users in the registry, it's likely because you haven't assigned a profile picture yet. Create a dummy one using a file of a different name than the transparent one you intend to use, then View>Refresh and the S-whatever will appear.

Win10Newb said:

how to make it transparent or to just completely remove it?

It`s not a very easy method but it worked for me

Remove User Account Picture From Sign-in Screen in Windows 10

For everyone else, here's a script to perform the same tasks from @Agent 997's article. It will ask for UAC permission to run as Administrator.

Code:

RemoveUserAccountPict.bat
RemoveUserAccountPict.bat Restore

There are three command-line options:

Replace - which is the default, switches everyone's User Account picture to a transparent image
Restore - restores everything to normal
Recreate - recreates the Windows default image if you've messed up the original file

Win10Newb said:

how to make it transparent or to just completely remove it?

Alternatively, you can remove the account picture entirely:
Open the "Settings" app in Windows.
Go to "Accounts" > "Your info."
Under "Create your picture," click on "Browse for one" and select the "No image" option or any blank image you may have.
This will remove the account picture.