User Account Picture\Icon on Win2003

[mau-yong]

How can you add at the top of the start menu an XP-like user account picture right beside the user name. In win 2003 just the username is displayed - no picture\icon.

There are .bmp's in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures similar to XP account pictures but are not being used.

There were two similar questions posted here (the oldest was 3 years ago) but not resolved. The other one, just over a year ago, was not even answered.

May 25, 2005 by ironfist241:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=42279&hl=

May 2, 2003 by playpiano:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=6103&hl=

Can anyone, out there, help us...

[cluberti]

There's no way to add the user account picture to W2K3. You can enable the themes service and get the XP Luna Themes support, but the pictures are only enabled if the "Welcome Screen-style" logon components are installed, which they are not in 2K3. Therefore, it reverts to the "Domain-style" or "Classic" logon options, sans pictures.

I believe this to be different in Longhorn/Vista, but 2K3 does not contain the functionality to display these pictures (they're not part of explorer.exe, they're part of the fus/welcomescreen components in XP).

[mau-yong]

Thanks cluberti.

That means I cannot add a user account picture and the XP style account pictures in my drive are uselessly taking up space.

It never bothered me though if I had or had no user picture but when I was browsing the forum and saw these two threads, I said to myself why not put an account picture - if I can, that is. But sadly , it can't be done.

[cluberti]

Unfortunately, it cannot. Again, I do believe that will change with the next server OS, but we shall see what RTM brings.

[fizban2]

So far in LH you can have pictures, we will see if it stays or not

[mau-yong]

Is LongHorn server different from Vista?

[kandurak]

Longhorn is in Server category and Vista is in workstation category (if i am right).

[mau-yong]

Very well then, I can't wait to get my hands on longhorn server!

[fizban2]

Longhorn is in Server category and Vista is in workstation category (if i am right).

correct,

both products ran with the "longhorn" code name, i am sure once it is release it will be called Server 2007 or some such thing