Can I Unstick Items in the Start Menu?

Q: Can I unstick items in the Start Menu? - Randolph Williams.





A: The items in the top half of the left column are there because you pinned them to the Start Menu. To remove one of these, right-click it and choose "Unpin from Start menu" in XP or "Remove from this list" if you're using Vista. The items in the bottom half are programs that you've used a lot. To remove one of these right-click it and choose "remove from this list" in either XP or Vista. Simple question, simple answer!

A more interesting question may be, "Can I prevent Windows from putting certain programs in the most-used programs list?" Maybe you'd rather not have the boss see that Freecell is one of your most-used programs, for example. And yes, you can. In XP or Vista, click Start, click Run, and enter REGEDIT. Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications. Look for a subkey of this key whose name is the program you want to suppress, for example Freecell.exe. Quite likely this key will not be present; if so, select Edit | New | Key from the menu to create a key with the appropriate name. Click on the key and then select Edit | New | String value from the menu. Name the value NoStartPage. You may need to reboot before this change takes effect, but once it does the program in question will never show up as most-used. - Neil J. Rubenking.