How to Disable Start Menu Items

Keywords:      start menu disable menu

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Question:

Does anyone know how to disable the start menu from appearing?

Answer:

In the registry....

	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\

for Windows 95, (something similiar for NT), is an dataitem

	[SystemTray]

that runs SYSTRAY.EXE.

I think if you delete that item, then there is no Start Menu.

Or if you search the database for TerminateApp you can find some code that closes the systray bar so it is not there.

Then, when you want it back...

	Run("systray.exe","")

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More Questions:

Does you have some experience in hiding/enabling, disabling menus in the NT start menu?

For example, the menu contains 150 Applications which are mostly installed on our network. Some applications need some files installed locally. If a user logs in on a PC where these files are not installed, he shouldn't see the menu.

Any ideas ????

Answer:

On a Novell Server here it is all done with access rights. If you have access rights to see a subdirectory of the start menu on the server, you see the shortcut branch and its shortcuts, otherwise not. Not sure if this the same for NT servers.

On the Banyan side of the network, we have a user-choice method, where, dependent on their access rights, they get a number of choice options presented to them, those they choose to have on their desktop, have their shortucts, and necessary .DLLs and.INIs copied down into their own systems. We chose this method so that our Banyan userbase, mostly scientists, have control over most of their own system, and will be soon changing the Novell server to this option.

If the menu is to remain on the server, I would recommend trying to do it all with administer-given access rights.

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Article ID:   W13326

Filename:   Disable Start Menu Items.txt