How to remove ALL PROGRAMS from Start Menu

1- Click on Start menu > click on RUN and type "regedit" and then press OK to open Windows Registry Editor.
2- Go to following address:
3- Create a new DWORD and name it as "NoStartMenuMorePrograms", and give it value of 1 to remove All Program from Start Menu.
4- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer.

Added later:

how to Remove default icons from Start menu
To Remove default icons such as My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, Favorites and Recent Docs Menu from Start menu do following:
1- Go to Start menu > click on RUN and then type regedit to run Windows Registry Editor.
2- Go to following address:
3- There are some entries such as: NoFavoritesMenu ،NoSMMyPictures ،NoStartMenuMyMusic, NoSMMyDocs .To remove each icon change value to 1.
4- Close Windows Registry Editor and restart your computer

Note: incorrectly editing registry entries may cause several damages, please create a back up from your registry entries.


This post has been edited by soleimanian: Oct 23 2007, 09:15 PM

Sorry, but why would we want to do this?