Switch user greyed / grayed out

I have two accounts on my A665-S5173 laptop, but when I go to Start > Sleep the Switch user option is greyed / grayed (depending on your spelling preference) out. Clearly logging off to switch users is undesirable so I appreciate any help to get this to work.
Thanks,
Lee
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Satellite A665-S5173
Try this..
Download the attached file: Add_All_Switch_User.reg.txt
Remove the .txt extension so that it becomes: Add_All_Switch_User.reg
Double-click the file in Windows Explorer and answer Yes that you wish to modify the registry.
-Jerry
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