Removing Username from the top of start menu in Windows XP

You can remove the user name from appearing in the Windows XP start menu using the following registry trick
Start>Run
Type regedit
This brings the registry editor
Navigate to the following key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
create a new value named "NoUserNameInStartMenu" and put its value to 1.
This will remove the user name from appearing in start menu.