How to hide the printers and faxes icon from startmenu

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John, you could have saved yourself 35 bucks and rt click on Start
Button>select Properties>Customize>Advanced>scroll down and uncheck Printers
and Faxes.
"John" <jgundelaanonymous@mchenry.edu> wrote in message
news:421b01c47321$6f559050$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I am using windows xp Proff. I am using gpedit to lock
> down the computer. I can remove everything except the
> printers and faxes icon from the start menu. I called
> microsoft support where you pay 35.00 per incident and
> they could not help me. Has anyone done this? Any help
> would be great.
>
> Thank you
>
> John

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Arden Pineda wrote:
> *John,
>
> I had the same requirement for some kiosk machines. I found the reg
> value
> that hides the Printers and Faxes icon on the Start menu.
>
> HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
>
> Start_ShowPrinters:REG_DWORD
>
> Set to 0 to hide the icon
> Set to 1 to display icon
>
> This is a per-user setting. You will need to logon twice, once to
> set the
> value and the second for the change to take effect.
>
> I have also included a custom ADM template for deploying via GPO.
> ---------start here------------------------------
>
> CLASS USER
>
> CATEGORY !!Company
>
> CATEGORY !!StartMenu
>
> POLICY !!PrinterFaxIcon
> KEYNAME
> "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced"
> EXPLAIN !!PrinterFaxIcon_Explain
> VALUENAME !!PrinterFaxIconValueName
> VALUEON NUMERIC 1
> VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
>
> END POLICY ;;PrinterFaxIcon
> END CATEGORY ;;StartMenu
> END CATEGORY ;;Company
>
> [strings]
> Company=YourCompanyNameHere
> StartMenu="Start Menu"
> PrinterFaxIcon="Show "Printers and Faxes" icon on the Start menu"
> PrinterFaxIcon_Explain="Enable or disable display of Printers and
> Faxes icon
> on the Start menu.\n\nDefault setting is to display the icon on the
> Start
> menu. Setting this to enabled has the same effect as the default
> setting.
> \n\nChoosing Disabled will hide the "Printers and Faxes" icon from
> the Start
> menu.
> PrinterFaxIconValueName="Start_ShowPrinters"
>
>
>
> Arden
>
> "John" wrote:
>
> > I am using windows xp Proff. I am using gpedit to lock
> > down the computer. I can remove everything except the
> > printers and faxes icon from the start menu. I called
> > microsoft support where you pay 35.00 per incident and
> > they could not help me. Has anyone done this? Any help
> > would be great.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > John
> > *



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