Often Used Shortcuts on Start menu - all gone

[mwiner]

This is great news!!! I got rid of them. I am not sure if this subject has been talked about here but I did a search and couldn't find anything.

But anywho.. I always hated when I redid a machine with my CD there were the XP tour, Movie Maker, and File & Settings Migrator icons. They really p***ed me off. I couldn't figure out how to remove these applications from the setup other then using nlite or a similar application. I guess I really don't care that the apps are installed I just like the idea of 'out of sight, out of mind'. So I found out that in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT you can set a reg entry that will prevent the icon from ever showing up!

;-------------------
;Clean Up Start Menu
;-------------------
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\migwiz.exe]
"NoStartPage"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\moviemk.exe]
"NoStartPage"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\tourstart.exe]
"NoStartPage"=""

Just put an empty String Value with the name of NoStartPage. Under the Applications\app.exe key. Where app is obviously the name of the application the shortcut is pointing to.

[jrzycrim]

Thanks for the tweak! I'm sure other people will find that useful.