Registry Settings on StartMenu

Question

_{Friday, September 16, 2016 7:50 AM}

hi,

I wanted to to know more about the registry settings for

start menu which is 

personalize > Start >choose which folder to appear on star.

If anyone has information regarding this , please do share .

Thank you

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_{Friday, September 16, 2016 12:21 PM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

This article will help you further in your quest of knowledge.

Some content of the article:

Navigate to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Here you will see a lot of DWORD valuenames.

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• NoTrayItemsDisplay : Hides the Task Bar notification area
• NoToolbarsOnTaskbar : Do not display any custom toolbars in the taskbar
• QuickLaunchEnabled : Enable QuickLaunch bar display in the TaskBar
• NoSimpleStartMenu : Disabling it will force the Classic Start Menu
• NoStartMenuPinnedList : Remove Pinned Programs list from the Start Menu
• NoStartMenuMorePrograms : Remove “All Programs” list from the Start menu
• NoStartMenuMyGanes : Remove Games from Start Menu
• NoStartMenuMyMusic : Remove Music from Start Menu
• NoStartMenuNetworkPlaces : Remove Network from Start Menu
• NoTaskGrouping : Prevent grouping of Task Bar items
• HideClock : Hides from the Task Bar notification area
• NoSMBalloonTip : Remove Balloon Tips on Start Menu items
• NoAutoTrayNotify : Turn off Task Bar area cleanup notification
• LockTaskbar : Lock the Taskbar and prevents the User from moving or resizing it
• NoSearchCommInStartMenu : If enabled Start Menu search will not search for Communications.
• NoSearchProgramsInStartMenu : If enabled Start Menu search will not search for Programs.
• NoSearchInternetInStartMenu : If enabled Start Menu search will not search for Internet History
• NoSearchFilesInStartMenu : If enabled Start Menu search will not search for Files.

This list is not exhaustive. You can simply study the registry key’s DWORD’s, illustrated above and see that there would be many more such tweaks or hacks available. The ValueNames are roughly indicative of what they would do.

Take the example of NoRun*. Its value is set at 0. If you open Taskbar & Start Menu Properties > Star Menu Tab > Start Menu > Customize. You will see a checkbox to Add Run command to the Start Menu. But if you now go back to regedit, and change the DWORD of NoRun to 1, and now go back to the Start Menu properties box, you will see that the item to Add Run itself will be missing. So, enabling or disabling such options through Windows Registry, will allow or prohibits users, from executing such actions through the Properties box.*

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_{Wednesday, December 20, 2017 12:22 PM}

Okay, I had a problem when sharing across users in Win 10 but I solved it.

If you have user "B" running and you share user "A" folders (but forget you already shared user A's folder.. duh...) this causes user "B" to have complete access BUT this REALLY screws up user A, of course.  But I digress.

I was looking for Start Menu registry information when I found this but, the Reg key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" is empty on my machine.

Is this something I should be concerned?