Remove Help and Support

[Kenny McCormick]

Is there a way to remove the Help and Support buttom in the startmenu when it is in classic mode?

[Aaron]

Using regshot, I found it changes one registry key, this registry key is for removing the Help and Support link in the Start Menu, yours may differ due to the unique numbering (which is different on every setup):

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-854245398-329068152-682003330-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoSMHelp: 01 00 00 00

*Edit*

Added the import code...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-854245398-329068152-682003330-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSMHelp"=hex:01,00,00,00

[Kenny McCormick]

thanks

[Nephilim]

Hey Aaron you couldn't have come up with RegShot a little earlier, could you?! I worked my a** off to collect all registry settings for XP-AntiSpy and know you tell me, that would have been 5 minutes work.

Well, I could have looked for the tool myself of course. But I seem to like the harder way! Just ask my girlfriend!

Nephilim

P.S.: Did I really wrote that last sentence?

[Aaron]

Regshot was mentioned by someone else in the forums yesterday, that's how I came to learn about it

[DarkPhantasmo]

Well you could just do:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSMHelp"=Hex:01,00,00,00

Remember though, that things get installed as the "Administrator" ... so what I do is I have a LAST.CMD file that I place in the All Users startup folder that does something similar to the following:

@ECHO OFF
IF %USERNAME% == Administrator GOTO ENDOFSCRIPT
ECHO This is where you do stuff as the user you setup during the first boot
ECHO Such as applying the registry entry above
DEL "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\START MENU\PROGRAMS\STARTUP\LAST.CMD"
:ENDOFSCRIPT
EXIT