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Resolved Remove Search From Start Menu Without Disabling Search?

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by ralatwbbs, 2015/03/30.

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    ralatwbbs Inactive Thread Starter

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    Is it possible to remove search from start menu without disabling search?

    Alternatively, and almost as good, how can I change the the order of the items on the start menu, specifically so that search comes after settings, making it possible to open the Control Panel with the 3 keystrokes "start ", "s ", "c "?

    I have tried changing HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoFind from 0 to 1 and back.
     
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    Did you try right clicking on start| then click on properties under the Start menu tab click on customize. Scroll down to search and unchecking the box. then click on OK then click on apply and ok.
     
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    There is no "search" in the list. The list is all verbs: display, enable, expand, scroll, use. None mentions search, The first is "Display Administrative Tools" and the last of 12 is "Use Personalized Menus ".
     

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    My apologies you're using the classic start menu. I haven't used XP in a long time. Let me dig up my old win XP manuals and see if I can find the way on the classic start menu setup to remove search
     
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    Please don't go to any more trouble over this. I have managed to reverse the order of 'settings' and 'search' on the start menu and that is good enough.

    Thank you.
     
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    Glad you got it fixed.
     
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