Remove Help and Support from your XP Start Menu [My Stuff for Getting Things Done]

image The Windows Help and Support function inevitably gets in my way.  It sounds dumb, but almost every time I try to select START | Run, I accidentally choose START | Help and Support.  It drives me nuts because it take so long to load, and I don’t need it at that time.  In fact, I have never needed the Help and Support function.

So I decided to remove it.  Here is how:

1. Open Notepad (or your favorite text file editor)

Copy and Past the Following text into Notepad
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"NoStartMenuHelp"=dword:00000001

2. Save the file to your Desktop and call it NoStartMenuHelp.reg

3. Double Click the Desktop file you just created called NoStartMenuHelp.reg.

4. When prompted with;
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Click Yes

5. Reboot your computer for the change to take affect.

When your computer restarts, the START | Help and Support function will be gone.  To clean things up, you will want to delete the Desktop file you created called  NoStartMenuHelp.reg.

Original post here: noreply@blogger.com (Tim Kwiatkowski)

30 August 2008 | 13012 | Comments

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