Changing the startmenu properties.

Tricks we are going to perform:-

1. Remove the My Documents icon from the Start menu and its sub menus.
2. Remove the search option from the start menu.
3. Remove Run from start menu.
4. Remove the My Pictures icon from the Start Menu.
5. Prevent the opening of start menu and task bar properties.
6. Lock the task bar permanently.
7. Remove the balloon tips from start menu.
8. Remove all programs list from start menu.
9. Remove the User name(only the name) from the start menu.
10. More.. tricks.
    

Are you ready.. I hope you will like this article....

Well,This all tricks can be used to play pranks on your friends computer or to in your own computer.

All the tricks require you to go to the Group policy Editor.
To go to group policy editor.

Click on start menu.
click on run.
Type gpedit.msc and press enter
you will see a Group policy editor window
Click/expand Administrative Templates in the left hand side of the window.
and then click on Start Menu and Task bar.
Note: For better editing, see that you are in the extended tab [you can find that on the bottom to the group policy editor].


Now let's begin with the tricks, All are easy.
1. Remove the My Documents icon from the Start menu and its sub menus.

• Double click on remove My documents from the start menu. (the third setting.)
• You will see it's properties with not configured button option selected.
• Now select enable option click on apply and click on OK

(For better info click on Explain tab)
And see the change my documents has disappeared from the start menu.

2. Remove the search option from the start menu.

You might have seen/noticed that when some virus infects the computer the search option gets
disabled.Now without making a virus. You can remove the search opption from the start menu of your friends computer or yours without going into any complication of creating a virus.

After going to the group policy editor and expanding administrative template, to do that see above.

• Double click on Remove search menu from Start menu.
• You will see it's properties with not configured button option selected.
• Now select enable option click on apply and click on OK

Your search menu option will be disabled.

3. Remove Run/help from start menu.

Want to scare your friends by disabling their run and help option from the start menu.
You can disable it in your own computer so that no one will use the run option to perform nasty tricks.
To remove help option.

• Double click on Remove Help menu from the start menu.
• You will see it's properties with not configured button option selected.
• Now select enable option click on apply and click on OK.

To remove run option.
Double click on Remove Run menu from the Start menu.
And follow the i),ii) and iii) steps of the trick no 1.
Now to remove..
4. Remove the My Pictures icon from the Start Menu.
5. Prevent the opening of start menu and task bar properties.
6. Lock the task bar permanently.
7. Remove the balloon tips from start menu.
8. Remove all programs list from start menu.
9. Remove the User name(only the name) from the start menu.
10.More.. tricks.

I hope now that you have figured out what to do :-). So proceed and change
the Start menu and task bar the way you want it to be. But be sure to be in extended tab.

Note:To disable the changes you have made just select the not configured option.

I have taken a Screen shot of the start menu before performing the tricks 1-9 and After performing the tricks - enjoy.