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Remove Hide and Support from Start Menu

Edi Kwie — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:23:28 +0000

If you’re a Windows XP beginner user, you maybe still need Help and Support menu. Obvious, Help and Support is very useful to us. But another hand, if you’re an expert user, I think you’ll never touch it. So, if you never touch it, just remove it and make your Start menu keeps clean.

To remove it, we’ll play with registry again.

Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run, enter regedit in box and then press Enter.
Navigate to path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policices \ Explorer.
Find NoSMHelp value, if you don’t find it, create it. To create it, right click Explorer key (or empty space on right panel), and then click New -> DWORD value menu.
Then replace the original value with NoSMHelp value.
Double click NoSMHelp value and replace its value data from 0 to 1.
Close Registry Editor and restart your computer.
The Help and Support menu has been disappeared.

To show it again, just change its value data to 0 or remove NoSMHelp value.
(article no: 0146)

Hide Control Panel

Edi Kwie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:10:39 +0000

Control Panel is center of Windows settings. You can find every thing there. And it makes us easy to maintenance Windows because you need to open a window only. But on other hand, if it use by wrong hands, your Windows can be destroyed easily. To prevent it, you can hide or remove it from Start menu.

To hide Control Panel, we’ll modify registry value.

Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run, enter regedit in box and then press Enter.
Navigate to path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policices \ Explorer.
Find NoControlPanel value, if you don’t find it, create it. To create it, right click Explorer key (or empty space on right panel), and then click New -> DWORD value menu.
Then replace the original value with NoControlPanel value.
Double click NoControlPanel value and replace its value data from 0 to 1.
Close Registry Editor and restart your computer.
The Control Panel has been disappeared.

To show Control Panel, just give NoControlPanel value data to 0 or delete NoControlPanel value.

Hide Log Off Button on Start Menu

Edi Kwie — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:24:56 +0000

By default, Windows XP puts Log Off button on Start Menu where located beside Turn Off Computer button. And if you don’t want the Log Off button on there, just hide it.

You can see the Log Off button on Start menu.

And here are the steps:

Open Registry Editor first by click Start -> Run menu, enter regedit in box and then press Enter key.
After Registry Editor is opened,

navigates to path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Policies \ Explorer.
Create a DWORD value in Explorer key, by right click on Explorer key or on right panel empty space, and then choose New -> DWORD value menu.
Replace the original value with StartMenuLogOff value.
Double click StartMenuLogOff value; replace the original data (0)

to (1).
And the value data has been changed.
Close Registry Editor and then restart your computer.
After the computer is restarted, try to look the Start Menu and your Log Off button has been hidden.

To bring it back, just remove StartMenuLogOff value or give it value data 0.

Expand My Computer Items In Start Menu

Edi Kwie — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:22:04 +0000

By default, Windows XP show My Computer in Start Menu as shortcut only. To access its contents, you’ll need to open it first then you just can open its contents. To make is shorter way, expand My Computer items as sub menu in Start Menu.
These are the steps:

1. Right click on task bar, and choose Properties menu.

2. Click Start Menu tab, then click Customize button.

3. In Customize Start Menu window, click Advanced tab.

4. Find My Computer item in Start Menu items list, and click Display as a menu option and then click OK to save your new configuration.

5. Now, click Start Menu to see My Computer item has changed.

(article no:0006)