28. Favourties be Gone!
You can remove the Favorites item from your Start menu by editing the Registry. (Note: We recommend backing up your Registry files--User.dat and System.dat, both hidden files in the Windows folder--first.)
Open the Registry Editor (select Start, Run, type
regedit
and click OK) and navigate your way to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer. In the right pane, right-mouse-click a blank area, select New, then select Binary Value. Name the new value
NoFavoritesMenu
then press Enter on your keyboard. Right-mouse-click the new value, select Modify, and type exactly
01 00 00 00
in the Value data box. (Note: You'll see four zeros there already. Just type the above eight numbers, and the spaces will be inserted automatically.) Click OK and close the Registry Editor.
Now restart Windows 95 and check your Start menu for that Favorites item. It's nowhere in sight! (Tip: If at any time, you want to put the Favorites folder back into your Start menu, you have two options:
Delete the NoFavoritesMenu value you just created, or change its data to 00 00 00 00.)
Microsoft® Windows®95 Hints & Tips by Stuart Martin.
