Hide my music from the Start menu (for all users)

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This tweak is used to hide My Music from the Start menu and also hide the Corresponding checkbox from the Start menu customization CPL.
Level: Recommended For Novice Users
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. 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\Policie s\Explorer\]</b>,right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "NoStartMenuMyMusic" in "Explorer" key.
Next, right-click on "NoStartMenuMyMusic" and click on 'Modify'.
Finally, enter the value "1" (Base Hexadecimal) without quotation in the text box and click on 'OK'. 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\Policies\Explorer\]
  • Location: Local Machine
  • Value Name: NoStartMenuMyMusic
  • Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
  • Enabled Value: 1
  • Disabled Value: 0
  • Action Type: Add an Entry


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