Policy

Remove Help menu from Start Menu

Microsoft Windows

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Remove Help menu from Start Menu
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Start Menu and Taskbar
Supported on
Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

Supported OS tags: Windows2000, Windows7, WindowsServer2003, WindowsServer2008, WindowsVista, WindowsXP

This policy setting allows you to remove the Help command from the Start menu. If you enable this policy setting, the Help command is removed from the Start menu. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the Help command is available from the Start menu. This policy setting only affects the Start menu. It does not remove the Help menu from File Explorer and does not prevent users from running Help.

Internal name
NoHelp
Policy ID
0c7c2f8cdb9a
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
NoSMHelp
REG_DWORD
HKCU
1
HKCU
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · User
Path
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Value name
NoSMHelp
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.