Removing Program menu entries

[craigd]

Please can someone help. I have removed as much of the Start, All Programs that I need to using group policy. Now I need to remove all of Start, All Programs, Accessories apart from the Accessibility menu. i have done registry scans and all sorts and I am still drawing a blank.

I do not want to remove the prorams, I just need to remove the links from the menu.

Does anyone have any clues about this or any direction that they can point me in?

ta

/Craigd

[Takeshi]

Those shortcuts are actually in the Start menu folders, not tied to the registry.

[craigd]

Those shortcuts are actually in the Start menu folders, not tied to the registry.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Not all of them. You try finding the one for Program Compatibility wizard!

/Craigd

[MHz]

Not all of them. You try finding the one for Program Compatibility wizard!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Program Compatibility Wizard.lnk

Takeshi is correct. There is no shell folders in start menu\programs. So scanning the registry would come up with nothing. Just create a script to remove them.

Edited July 17, 2005 by MHz

[spiritpyre]

The reason you might have missed it is because there are two separate folders containing the links that appear on the start menu:

%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs

AND

%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\%username%\Start Menu\Programs

* %systemdrive% is usually 'C:' but you can copy and paste and windows

should understand the '%systemdrive%'

<edit> i found "Program Compatibility Wizard.lnk" in the second one (as suggested by MHz).

Edited July 26, 2005 by spiritpyre