Remove the Microsoft Subscription Status Info from the User Section of the Start Menu

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You might have noticed that Microsoft is constantly changing the way Windows 11 looks and functions. And it seems that every time there is a major update, we need to learn new ways to do the simple tasks we were used to doing the old way. One of the biggest complaints is how the taskbar and start menu function compared to how easy it was to customize in Windows 10.

In one of the more recent Windows updates, Microsoft decided to change how we access other users on our computer from the start menu. Normally, you can click the start button and then on your user account and do things such as switch accounts, change account settings, lock the computer and sign out. Now when you click your user account on the start menu, you will see subscription information for things such as Office 365, Copilot and OneDrive. Then you need to click on the ellipsis (…) to access your other user accounts. In this article, we will be showing you how to remove the Microsoft subscription status info from the user section of the start menu.

The image below shows how the start menu looks on a computer with more than one user account. When you click on the logged in username, you are shown subscription information for Microsoft 365, Copilot and OneDrive. Yours may look different depending on what types of accounts are connected to your Microsoft account.

To remove the user Microsoft subscription status info from the start menu, we will be using the ViVe Tool which is a C# library and console app designed to interact with the feature control APIs in Windows 10 and newer versions. This tool allows power users to enable or disable specific features that are hidden or experimental, giving them more control over their Windows experience. It is used via the command line even though there is a GUI version of the ViVe Tool that you can use if you do not like running commands on your computer.

Once you download the ViVe Tool, you will need to know what folder you have the files stored in for the next step. As you can see in the image below, there is the main ViVeTool.exe file with some other supporting files.

To start the process, open an administrative command prompt and navigate to the directory where you have the ViVe Tool files located.

Once you are in that directory, type the following text at the prompt and press enter.

Vivetool /disable /id:46892085,48433719

It should then give you a message saying Successfully set feature configuration (s).

Now you will need to reboot your computer for the changes to take effect. Then once you log back in and click on the start button and your user account, you will see the older version of the user menu as shown in the image below.