How to manage (add/delete) the New Header on Settings Page

f14tomcat said:

Recently, particularly since the start of the 20H2 roll-out, more and more users have been seeing the new Header area in the Settings page. Some have asked how to remove it, and some have asked how to add it to Settings.

Here is a simple method that will completely remove the Header Area and all it's data, or add it to the Settings Page with data available for that user.

These steps were extracted from a YouTube Video How to Enable or Disable Header Ad in Windows 10 Settings - YouTube

Thanks to @OldMike65 for the link and info.

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1) First, go to Github and download the ViveTool package as indicated here:

Releases . thebookisclosed/ViVe . GitHub

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2) Move or copy the download to your desktop. Makes for easier working.

3) Extract the Zip file to your Desktop.

4) The contents of the extracted folder should look like this:

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5) If you watch the Video, parts of it go very quickly with the cursor dancing all over the screen, so I have captured the 2 command line arguments so they can be a copy/paste.

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Delete the Header .\vivetool.exe delconfig 18299130 1

Add the Header .\vivetool.exe addconfig 18299130 2

6) Open the Extracted Folder as shown in step 4.

7) In the upper left corner of the Explorer window, click "File", then hover over "Open Windows Powershell", than click "Open Windows Powershell as Administrator"

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8) In the Powershell Window at the prompt, copy/paste either the delete option

.\vivetool.exe delconfig 18299130 1

or the add option

.\vivetool.exe addconfig 18299130 2

depending on your choice.


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Press Enter, it will process. Enter Exit>Enter, or close PS window.

9) Restart your machine.

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Before:

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After:

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Notes:

1. I have not been able to make this work on Insider builds. MS may have them locked down.
2. This tool is similar in function to Mach 2. Mach 2 disables individual feature segments whereas ViveTool disables the entire feature. Mach 2 has not been working consistently lately. It will disable then come back.
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That's it. Done!

Thanks TC, I was fooling with this yesterday. For some reason it disappeared and I was using a different version of that app.

Josey Wales said:

Thanks TC, I was fooling with this yesterday. For some reason it disappeared and I was using a different version of that app.

After a surprise update to build 2004 from 1909 the (local) user account image is gone from the header, it looks broken this way. Re-applying an image won't bring it back

I found that site's method worked- until I rebooted.

MS is good at improving things worse (so to speak).

IronZorg89 said:

Good to know, but I think @erpster4 said none of these methods work anymore. A little bit confusing there...Anyhow, I am glad it worked for you.

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One thing for sure is that if MS does want the banner to stay, no tweak or workaround will work. As I said before, we will know for sure in a not so distant future.

The Settings Banner has been in the Insider build since way last year, way before W11 was itch in somebody's ear. It's been basically unchanged and is moving from Dev to Beta to RP to RTM, regardless of W10 or W11. I think your "not so distant future" is here.

IMHO