How do you disable the start Button

[lack]

I work for a high school and we are locking down a few of our machines down completey because we have them set up for a lab. I was wondering how you can disable the start button all together. I know how to disable the folders and things in the menu itself but I was wondering how you can disable it altogether without 3rd party software.

[reghakr]

Luckily, I have this handy:
And thanks to jstoltz for help with this one.

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.

I just posted this additional information on another board, so I'll pass it along here.

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 undostart.reg so you can easily undo the restriction to perform maintenance on the machine.

NoClose
NoFavoritesMenu
NoFind
NoLogOff
NoRecentDocsMenu
NoRun
NoSetFolders
NoSetTaskbar
NoWindowsUpdate
NoViewContextMenu

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 disable context menus for the desktop, start button, and explorer

reghakr

[lack]

I appreciate the info and I can use that stuff too but I was wondering if you can disable it all together. like you left click and nothing happens and you right click nothing happens