Settings Menu

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately the regeedit to remove folders from the settings menu does'nt quite work on WIN98!

The tip says "Removes the Control Panel and Printers folders from the Settings menu. Note: Removing the Taskbar, Control Panel, and Printer folders causes the Settings menu to be removed completely." But in WIN98 removing the Taskbar, Control Panel & Prionters folders does NOT remove the Settings menu. Do you know of a way to do this??

Thanks!

Roger

[jstolz]

Try this on Win 98:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSetFolders"=dword:00000001
"NoSetTaskbar"=dword:00000001

This tweak also removes Control Panel and Printers from MyComputer, but you have them on a cascading start menu, you can access them from there..

Regards...

[Plastic]

You also need to apply

- NoFolderOptions
- NoSetActiveDesktop
- NoWindowsUpdate

Win 98 got more options under settings, that's why..
Speaking of this, I always used binary values, they work fine. Is there a reason or difference for using DWORD values ?

Regards,

[jstolz]

Thanks for setting me straight... you're absolutely right in that all subfolders in Settings must be suppressed in order to hide the settings menu item.

As far as Binary v. DWORD, I was thumbing through the "Win98 Registry Guide" and noted that many keys allow either value (in correct binary=hex value, of course). The book didn't offer more explanation...

Regards...