Figure 2-9. The Classic Start menu is simpler and cleaner than Vista??™s standard Start
menu, but relies more heavily on overly jumpy cascading menus
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Shell Tweaks
Windows items
The remaining entries in the lower part of the Start menu are all seemingly
???hardcoded,??? in that you can??™t easily customize or hide most of
them.
To hide the Favorites or Log Off entries, right-click the Start button,
select Properties, click Customize, and turn off the Display favorites or
Display log off options, respectively. To remove any other entries here,
like Search or Run, 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. For instance, to remove the Documents menu, double-click
the Remove Documents icon from Start Menu entry, select Enabled,
and click OK.
If you hide the Documents menu, you may also want to
double-click the Do not keep history of recently opened
documents entry and select Enabled; this not only stops
Windows from tracking what you do on your PC, but it
clears the history lists shown in some applications??™ File ???
Open and File??? Save windows.
Close the Group Policy Object Editor when you??™re done, and log out
and then back in again for the changes to take effect.
Clean Up the Tray
The notification area as Microsoft calls it??”or more commonly, the tray??”is
the box full of tiny icons on the far right side of your taskbar, next to the clock.
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