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

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This setting permits you hide the sub option "People in your Address Book" from the Find option in start menu and in Windows Explorer.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
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. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.




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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Go to <b>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WabFind\]</b>,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.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\FindExtensions\Static\WabFind\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: 0
  • Data Type: Key
  • Action Type: Rename


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