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Monday, February 14, 2011

How to hide program from appearing in the Start panel


This is a cool trick to deal with and specially for those who doesn’t want to share there work with anyone. Just take an example of ‘John”. Johan works in a office and he  plays solitaire in his leisure time. Every time John plays this game, Windows automatically put a file of this in Start panel as recent run program. This tracking is a problem for John because he is concerned that one of his fellow employees might see the program on the list and report him. What should John do or you do if you are in place of John? Don’t think so much, just follow these easy steps and enjoy !!

  • Click Start and select Run. Type regedit in the box and Ok.
  • Once the Registry Editor dialog box opens, expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT folder.
  • Navigate through the list of folders until you finds the folder called Application and expand that        as well.
  • Now, to hide Solitaire, you have to expand the sol.exe folder.






  •  Can’t find a folder called sol.exe? That’s because some Windows applications are not listed. If the application was listed, then you needs to skip this steps. Otherwise, you will need to create a folder. To do so, selects the Applications folder with the mouse. Then type the name of the executable for the name of the key. For Solitaire, you will want to name the key sol.exe.
  •  Now you have found the folder for the application or created one, expands it so that you can see all of its values. Then, right – clicks the executable folder that he just created or found in the registry. Select New and then select String. Next, types in NoStartPage as the name of the string variable.
  •  Close the Registry Editor and Logs Off and then back in. You will never see Solitaire in your frequently run programs list again.














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