How to change your account picture

This tutorial will show you how to change the picture that is displayed for your user account. There could be a number of reasons why you want to change the default picture with the most popular being that you wish to have a picture that means something to you there for making your Windows XP more customised.

Step One

Click on Start and select Run
Or
Hold down the windows key and Press R then click OK

Step Two

Type in nusrmgr.cpl then Click OK

Step Three

Click on the User Account that you wish to change the picture of.
In this example I'm using the "Account Name" account

Step Four

Click on Change the picture

Step Five

Select a picture from the list provided or you can click browse if you wish to use one of your own pictures that you have saved.

Step Six

Once you have selected a Picture you that you would like to use Click Change Picture

Picture Changed

Well done! thats all there was to it. The image that you selected should now be the image thats displayed.

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