How To Remove All Programs From Start Menu

[soleimanian 0]

How to remove ALL PROGRAMS from Start Menu

 

1- Click on Start menu > click on RUN and type "regedit" and then press OK to open Windows Registry Editor.

2- Go to following address:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

3- Create a new DWORD and name it as "NoStartMenuMorePrograms", and give it value of 1 to remove All Program from Start Menu.

4- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer.

 

Added later:

 

how to Remove default icons from Start menu

To Remove default icons such as My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Favorites and Recent Docs Menu from Start menu do following:

1- Go to Start menu > click on RUN and then type regedit to run Windows Registry Editor.

2- Go to following address:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3- There are some entries such as: NoFavoritesMenu ،NoSMMyPictures ،NoStartMenuMyMusic, NoSMMyDocs .To remove each icon change value to 1.

4- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer

 

Note: incorrectly editing registry entries may cause several damages, please create a back up from your registry entries.

Edited October 23, 2007 by soleimanian (see edit history)

[Liam_CF 0]

Sorry, but why would we want to do this?