Hide Printers and Faxes in new Start menu.

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This tweak can control the display of Printers and Faxes in new Start menu.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
Description:
You can add, remove and configure local and network printers and fax printers using printers and faxes option in start menu. The installed printers can be checked on the folder link of this option or can be displayed as a cascaded menu. To avoid the display of printers and faxes option in new start menu, apply this registry setting. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value start_showprinters, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to 0 which can hide printers and faxes item from the new start menu. However, if you want to show the item back, change the value data to 1 or delete the value. The changes take effect after a restart or logoff. Note: this setting will have no effect if you use the classic start menu display in windows. 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_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\]</b> and create a new 'DWORD value' as "Start_ShowPrinters".
Right Click on "Start_ShowPrinters" and select 'Modify'.
Finally, set the value data to "0" and click 'OK' to hide the icon 'Printers and Faxes' from the new Start Menu.


Registry Entries

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  • Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]
  • Location: Current User
  • Value Name: Start_ShowPrinters
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 0
  • Disabled Value: 1
  • Action Type: Add an Entry


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