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[ralabiso]

Hi i need hide o disable the Start botton on the task bar , or hide the program folder on the start menu

[reghakr]

ralabiso,

You can disable all these, but if the person has access to the hard drive, they're basically useless

Backup the registry and/or export the following keys before making any modifications:

Open regedit, navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer
Right-click on the Explorer key, choose new>DWORD name it
NoChangeStartMenu
and give it a value of 1.

These are additional restricts under the same key as above with a value of 1. I'd suggest you create all the entries with a value of 0, then export the file as indostart.reg so you can easily undoi the restriction to perform maintenance on the machine.

NoClose
NoFavoritesMenu
NoFind
NoLogOff
NoRecentDocsMenu
NoRun
NoSetFolders
NoSetTaskbar
NoWindowsUpdate
NoViewContextMenu
NoSMHelp

right-click on each of these values, choose modify and give them each a value of 1.

NoStartMenuSubFolders removes subfolder entries from StartMenu

NoCommonGroups common program groups do not appear on the Start menu

NoChangeStartMenu removes the abilityright-click on the Start Menu and modify it using the context menu

NoClose remove the ShutDown option from the Start Menu

NoFavoritesMenu hide Favorites on Start Menu

NoFind remove the Find command from the Start Menu

NoLogOff remove logoff [username]... from Start Menu

NoRecentDocsMenu hide Recent documents on Start Menu

NoRun remove the Run command from the Start menu

NoSetFolders hide Settings|Control Panel and Settings|Printers on the Start Menu

NoSetTaskbar hide Settings|Taskbar on the Start Menu; only Drag/Drop can be used to alter Start Menu and Desktop

NoWindowsUpdate removes Windows update from Start Menu|Settings

NoViewContextMenu disables context menus for the desktop, start button, and explorer.

NoSMHelp removes the Help item.

reghakr