Bundled Start Menu Recent Programs

I bought a machine a couple months ago that came with Vista
installed. My question is, I think, a simple one, but I'm baffled by
it. Basically, the manufacturer of the machine put in a list of
default "Recent Programs" that come up on the Start Menu. If I remove
them all, they stay gone, but they come back when I reset my PC and
bump all my actual recent programs off the list. It includes things
I've unistalled (like the ISP ads that came with the PC).

Anyone know how I can just get those to go away?

Right click the Taskbar > click Properties > Customize > under 'Programs' >
click 'Clear List' > OK > OK.
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"Eric D. Braden" <bradenericd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I bought a machine a couple months ago that came with Vista
> installed. My question is, I think, a simple one, but I'm baffled by
> it. Basically, the manufacturer of the machine put in a list of
> default "Recent Programs" that come up on the Start Menu. If I remove
> them all, they stay gone, but they come back when I reset my PC and
> bump all my actual recent programs off the list. It includes things
> I've unistalled (like the ISP ads that came with the PC).
>
> Anyone know how I can just get those to go away?

"Eric D. Braden" asked...
>I bought a machine a couple months ago that came with Vista
> installed. My question is, I think, a simple one, but I'm baffled by
> it. Basically, the manufacturer of the machine put in a list of
> default "Recent Programs" that come up on the Start Menu. If I remove
> them all, they stay gone, but they come back when I reset my PC and
> bump all my actual recent programs off the list. It includes things
> I've unistalled (like the ISP ads that came with the PC).
>
> Anyone know how I can just get those to go away?


Only try this if you are comfortable working with the registry!

Regedit.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
Explorer \ Advanced

In the right-pane, create a new DWORD value named StartMenuInit
Double-click StartMenuInit and set 3 its dat

On Nov 17, 10:12 am, <h...@home.again> wrote:
> "Eric D. Braden" asked...
>
> >I bought a machine a couple months ago that came with Vista
> > installed. My question is, I think, a simple one, but I'm baffled by
> > it. Basically, the manufacturer of the machine put in a list of
> > default "Recent Programs" that come up on the Start Menu. If I remove
> > them all, they stay gone, but they come back when I reset my PC and
> > bump all my actual recent programs off the list. It includes things
> > I've unistalled (like the ISP ads that came with the PC).
>
> > Anyone know how I can just get those to go away?
>
> Only try this if you are comfortable working with the registry!
>
> Regedit.exe
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \
> Explorer \ Advanced
>
> In the right-pane, create a new DWORD value named StartMenuInit
> Double-click StartMenuInit and set 3 its dat

It's been too long since I've checked ngs! Sorry for the oldness of
this, but can you explain what that does? (no need to get crazy
specific, but I like to know generally what I'm doing. Like, why 3?
What does that value represent, as opposed to others?)