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In This Section:
  • Disable the Shut Down Command.
  • Hide Drives from My Computer.
  • Hide All Items on Desktop.
  • Remove Favorites Folders from the Start Menu.
  • Remove Find command in Start Menu.
  • Stop programs from starting automatically when starting windows.
    •  Beware: Before making any changes to the registry remeber to make a backup of it. Copy the file user.dat to another location, this is the file that holds registry information.

    To open the registry file go to the Start Menu » Run and then type 'regedit'. You should be able to find the values that are mentioned here, if you don't *create them*.

    Disable the Shut Down Command.
    1. Open Regedit and find the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
    2. Find the Value Name NoClose and change its data
    3. If you want to enable shutdown change the key value to 0 if you want to disable it change it to 1.
    Hide Drives from My Computer
    1. Open Regedit and find the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
    2. Now find the value NoDrives and change the value to the corresponding number below. (ex. if you want to hide c: change the value to 4).
    3. The values are: A: 1, B: 2, C: 4, D: 8, E: 16, F: 32, G: 64, H: 128, I: 256, J: 512, K: 1024, L: 2048, M: 4096, N: 8192, O: 16384, P: 32768, Q: 65536, R: 131072, S: 262144, T: 524288, U: 1048576, V: 2097152, W: 4194304, X: 8388608, Y: 16777216, Z: 33554432, ALL: 67108863
    Hide all Items on Desktop
    1. Open Regeditn and find the key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
    2. Find the value NoDesktop
    3. Change the value to 0 to enable it. Change the value to 1 to disable it.
    Remove Favorites Folders from the Start Menu
    1. Open Regedit and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
    2. Find the Value NoFavoritesMenu
    3. Change the value to 1 to enable it. Change the value to 0 to disable it.
    Remove Find command in Start Menu
    1. Open Regedit and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
    2. Find the Value NoFind
    3. Change the value to 1 to enable it. Change the value to 0 to disable it.
    Stop programs from starting automatically when starting windows.
    1. Open Regedit and find the key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion]
    2. Find the Value Run or RunOnce
    3. To start a program automatically just create a new entry. Or to stop the program from starting delete the entry.
    4. There may be other keys starting programs automatically to find them just go to Edit » Find and type 'Run' there you may find other values.
    		  
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