Tweak Library – Hide ‘People in your Address Book’ from find option in Start menu and in Windows Explorer

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Hide ‘People in your Address Book’ from find option in Start menu and in Windows Explorer

This setting permits you hide the sub option "People in your Address Book" from the Find option in start menu and in Windows Explorer.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

Address book in Windows lets you search people through various categories.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below after checking for the subkey, “0”. Right-click it and rename the data value with “0x” to enable the setting.

Click “OK” and close the registry editor.

Restart the system or logoff to see the changes taking effect.

These changes apply to ALL users on this machine.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WabFind\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

Data Type :

Key

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Rename

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

‘People in your Address Book’ from find option in Start menu is removed.

‘People in your Address Book’ from find option in Start menu is visible by default.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WabFind\],right-click on "0" Key and click on 'Rename'. and Rename this key to "0X". Once you are done. After a restart or logoff, the changes take effect.