"Sign in as a Different User" not appeared in My SharePoint Site 2013

One of the coolest feature in SharePoint 2010 is that it provides a menu to directly login with different user account into your SharePoint page. By clicking on the right side on the login username, the small pop up window will appear, and there it is.... Just like the picture shown below:

But once you move on to SharePoint 2013, the menu is by default disappeared

It is somehow making the user difficult the they want to change using another username for signing in to SharePoint page, because they firstly need to sign out and close the browser and re-open to the browser in order to be able to login with another username. That's why I call it as one of the coolest menu in SharePoint 2010 that got left behind in the newer version of SharePoint and your users might be complaining regarding this small feature. But you don't have to worry about that, there is a small simple steps you can follow in order to bring this feature back to life under SharePoint 2013. But before you follow these steps, make sure you can have read/write permission of Program files folder. Once you have that permission, you then can be able to activate the feature for your SharePoint 2013.

Below are the steps to bring the feature back:

1. Login to your SharePoint Server --> go to directory C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft       shared\Web Server Extensions\15\TEMPLATE\CONTROLTEMPLATES\

           

2. Open file named welcome.ascs with notepad or other tools supported 

3. Look for tag (most probably starting from line 45) 

                                "<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server"    id="ID_SwitchView" MenuGroupId="200" Sequence="200" UseShortId="true"/>"

4. Add this code after the code tag shown in step 3 

<SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" ID="ID_LoginAsDifferentUser"
 Text="<%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuser%>"
 Description="<%$Resources:wss,personalactions_loginasdifferentuserdescription%>"
 MenuGroupId="100"
 Sequence="100"
 UseShortId="true"/>

5. The code should look like this after you do the changes

6. Save and just refresh your SharePoint page and here we go

And those are the steps how to bring back what was hidden under the sea. I don't know why they don't set it as a default feature in SharePoint 2013. It's also not a deprecated feature from the previous version as you can take look at the list of some deprecated feature here. What I can assume is that they do this perhaps for some security reasons. 

I hope this information can help you solving the problem in your SharePoint environment and Thankkk youuu....