Tweaks > Start Menu > Remove 'Windows Catalog' Shortcut.

[Martin H]

Does anyone of you guys use the nLite tweak that is ment to remove the 'Windows Catalog' Shortcut from the start menu ? For me then it dosen't work and i'm using 'Windows XP Pro. SP2 - Corp(Gold Release), and i'm not removing anything, but just using nLite to integrate 'Xables Light High Priority Update Pack'(XUDPack v2.0.9), making the CD unattended, applying tweaks and for making the ISO after i have added all my 7-Zip SFX installers and RunOnceEx.cmd etc. I am also selecting the nLite tweaks for hiding the Start Menu's 'Help' and 'Set Program Access and Defaults' shortcuts, and then when i check in 'NLITE.INF', then i can see the reg keys for hidding the 'Help' and 'Set Program Access and Defaults' shortcuts from the Start Menu, i.e. :

HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer","NoSMHelp",0x00010001,1
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer","NoSMConfigurePrograms",0x00010001,1
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced","Start_ShowHelp",0x00010001,0

But i can't see anything for hiding the 'Windows Catalog' shortcut ? Maybe there isn't a reg key for hiding that shortcut, and nLite is just deleting it totally from 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu', but that isn't done either for me ?

So, could anyone that have used this tweak please report back to me if it works for them or not, or i would also really appreciate if nuhi had the time to tell me if he knows for sure that this tweak does work right and which reg key is used, or if it is supposed to delete the file instead.

Thank's in advance.

Martin.

Edited May 19, 2007 by Martin H

[Martin H]

Well, after searching through a bunch of nLite threads, then i can see that this issue has been reported atleast 3 times before(first in august 2005)...

@nuhi

Please either remove the tweak or fix it when you have some free time and motivation I don't think that there is a reg key available for hiding it, or atleast i couldn't find any after much searching around, so i guess that it's just a simple matter of enabling that tweak to do the following :

del "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk"

Btw, The 'NumLock - On' tweak also dosen't work. One site mentions this :

With InitialKeyboardIndicators=2, NumLock is enabled and will retain the settings from the last shutdown

Well, on a fresh install then there isn't a previous shutdown and hence, isn't then this the reason why it isn't on ?

[Martin H]

@nuhi

By a lot of testing, then i have found out that the 'Remove Windows Catalog' tweak is only applied if you remove IE.

Just an FYI

Edit: Oh sorry! I forgot to say that i have not tried the v1.4b, and that this issue is tested on v1.3.5, so if it is allready fixed in v1.4b, then i humbly apologice for the redundant report.

Edited June 25, 2007 by Martin H