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How do I disable the context menu for the Start button?
John Savill
January 8, 2000
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A. The context menu if displayed when you right click on an object. If you right click on the Start button you get options to start explorer, find etc. To disable this perform the following:
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshell
Delete the keys under this, for example DosHere, find
Move to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershell
Delete the keys under this, for example explore, open
Right clicking on Start will now have removed these options.
To disable the context menu entirely perform the following
Start the registry editor (regedit.exe)
Move to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorer
From the Edit menu select New - DWORD Value
Enter a name of NoTrayContextMenu and press Enter
Double click the new value and set to 1.
To re-enable the Context menu you would set to 0. Logout and in again for this to take effect.
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