Your User Profile contains everything you share with other people on Tox. You can open it by clicking the picture on the top right corner. It contains the following settings:
### Public Information
* _Name:_ This is your nickname which everyone who has your Tox ID can see.
* _Status:_ You can post a status message here, which again everyone on who has your ToxID can see.
### Tox ID
The long code in hexadecimal format is your Tox ID, share this with everyone you want to talk to. Click it to copy it to your clipboard.
Your Tox ID is also shown as QR-Code to easily share it with friends over a smartphone.
The "Save image" button saves the QR-Code into a image file, while the "Copy image" button copies into your clipboard.
### Profile
qTox allows you to use multiple Tox IDs with different profiles, which each can have different nicknames, status messages and friends.
+ _Current profile:_ Shows the filename which stores your information.
+ _Current profile locatation:_ Shows the path to the profile file.
+ _Rename_ This button allows you to rename your profile. Your nickname and profile name don't have to be the same.
+ _Export_ Allows you to export your profile in a format compatible with other Tox clients. You can also manually backup your *.tox files.
+ _Logout_ Close your current profile and show the login window.
+ _Remove password_ If you set a password for your profile, you can remove it with this button.
+ _Change password_ If you set a password for your profile, you can change the password with this button. You can also set a password for unencrypted profiles here.
* _Autostart:_ If set, qTox will start when you login on your computer. qTox will also autmatically open the profile which was active when you ticked the checkbox, but this only works if your profile isn't encrypted (has no password set).
* _Light icon:_ If set, qTox will use a different icon, which is easier to see on black backgrounds.
* _Show system tray icon:_ If set, qTox will show its icon in your system tray.
* _Start in tray:_ On start, qTox will only show its tray icon and no window.
* _Minimize to tray:_ The minimize button on the top right, will minimize qTox to its tray icon. There won't be a taskbar item.
* _Auto away after (0 to disable):_ After the specified amount of time, qTox will set your Status to "Away". A setting of 0 will never change your status.
* _Default directory to save files:_ You can set the directory where qTox puts files you recieved here.
* _Open window:_ If checked, the qTox window will be opened. If you use the multiple windows mode, see [Multi Window Mode](#multi-window-mode) for details.
* _Group chats always notify:_ If set, qTox will notify you on every new message in a groupchat.
* _Place groupchats at top of friend list:_ If checked, your groupchats will be at the top of the contacts list, else they will be sorted with your other contacts.
* _Faux offline messaging:_ If enabled, qTox will attempt to send messages when a currently offline contact comes online again.
* _Multiple windows mode:_ If enabled, the qTox user interface will be split into multiple independent windows. For details see [Multi Window Mode](#multi-window-mode).
* _Open each chat in an individual window:_ If checked, a new window will be opened for every chat you open. If you manually grouped the chat into another window, the window which hosts the chat will be focused.
* _Enable UDP (recommended):_ If enabled, qTox will use TCP and UDP protocols. If disabled, qTox will only use TCP, which is supposed to lower the amount of traffic, but is also slower and puts more load on other network participants.
NoSpam is a feature of Tox to prevent someone spamming you with friend requests. If you get spammed, enter or generate a new NoSpam value, this will alter your Tox ID. You don't need to tell your existing contacts your new Tox ID, but you have to tell new contacts your new Tox ID. Your Tox ID can be found in your [User Profile](#user-profile)
* _Filter audio_ If enabled, qTox will try to remove noise and echo from your audio input.
#### Video Settings
* _Video device:_ Select the video device qTox should use for video calls. "None" will show a dummy picture to your chat partner. "Desktop" will stream the content of your screen.
* _Resolution:_ You can select from the available resolutions and framerates here. Higher resolutions provide more quality, but if the bandwidth of your connection is low, the video may get choppy.
If you set up everything correctly, you should see the preview of your video device in the box.
* _Rescan devices_ Use this button to search for newly attached devices, e.g. you plugged in a webcam.
Groupchats are a way to talk with multiple friends at the same time, like when you are standing together in a group. To create a groupchat click the groupchat icon and set a name. Now you can invite people by right clicking on the contact and selecting "Invite to group". Currently, if the last person leaves the chat, it is closed and you have to create a new one. Sending files and videochats are currently unsupported in groupchats.
If you activated this mode in the [settings](#settings), qTox will seperate its main window into a contact list and chat windows, which allows you to have multiple conversations on your screen on the same time. Additionally you can manually group chats into a window by dragging and dropping them onto eachother.
