The items in the All Programs menu are shortcuts on your hard disk,
compiled from two sources. First, there are your personal shortcuts here:
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
Menu\Programs
and then there??™s the common (or ???All users???) folder here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Although you can drag and drop shortcuts in this list, it??™s usually a
whole lot easier to work with the folders directly in Windows Explorer,
especially if you have a lot of things to change.
Resist the temptation to consolidate your personal Start
menu shortcuts and the All Users shortcuts. Among other
things, this can mess with applications that place shortcuts
in these locations automatically, and can cause problems like
the same program being run more than once each time you
start windows. Instead, just delete unwanted items from
both places, and add your own items only to your personal
Programs folder.
To remove the All Programs item from the Start menu, open the Group
Policy Object Editor (gpedit.msc, which is not present on the Vista
Home editions), and expand the branches to User Configuration\
Administrative Templates\Start Menu and Taskbar. Double-click Remove
All Programs list from the Start menu, select Enabled, and click OK.
You??™ll have to log out and then log back in for this change to take effect.
You can customize some of the aspects of this menu by right-clicking an
empty area of the Start menu, selecting Properties, and then clicking
Customize.
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