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Hide My Music from the Start menu (For Current User)

This tweak is used to hide My Music from the Start menu and also hide the Corresponding checkbox from the Start menu customization CPL.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Description:

My Music folder is a part of My Documents. It contains music files & folders, audios and videos having musical content etc.

For this, you have to make changes in the registry. Go to "Start->Run" and enter "regedit" and navigate to the registry path listed below. Create DWORD value name " NoStartMenuMyMusic" in the right panel and modify the data value to "1" to hide and "0" to display - it is also the default value.

After restart or logoff, changes take effect.

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Hide My Music From Start Menu.reg

The ".reg" file can hide "My Music" from the "Start Menu".

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Show My Music in Start Menu (Default).reg

The ".reg" file can show "My Music" in the "Start Menu".

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

NoStartMenuMyMusic

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

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

The "My Music" is not visible in the 'Start' menu after the changes have been made in the registry.

The "My Music" is visible in the 'Start' menu.

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

Second, go to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key, right-click on the blank area in the right pane and click on "New > DWORD Value" to create a new DWORD value with the name "NoStartMenuMyMusic".

Third, right-click on the 'NoStartMenuMyMusic DWORD value and click on "Modify".

Finally, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.