Remove an entry from the "Run" box-Win 98FE

[jmtjet]

How do I remove an entry from the "run" box on Win 98. I would like to remove the entry "misconfig" from the drop down list in the Run box from the start menu. This computer is going to be used by a 12 year old and I'm afraid of what damage can be done if I leave it there.

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, jmtjet,

TweakUI has a paranoia setting that will clear all those histories.

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/PowerToys/Networking/NTTweakUI.asp

You can also hide drives and items in the Control panel.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[jmtjet]

Thanks, that did it.

 

[wolluf]

but of course a 12 year old won't take long to 'find' msconfig (or anything else) for themselves (if my children are anything to go by!)

 

[cdogg]

Without using an additional app like TweakUI, you can do this to delete all the entries listed there:

1) Start -> Settings -> Taskbar & StartMenu...
2) Click on the "Start Menu Programs" tab
3) Click Clear and then OK

Note: Clicking clear will also remove other temporary shortcut items like ones listed in your recent documents list (Start -> My Documents) or recent website links in IE from the dropdown.


TweakUI is nice to use instead because you can delete each set of shortcuts individually and not all at once if you don't want to.

~cdogg
[tab]"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind"
[tab][tab]- Aristotle

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, Wolluf,

> a 12 year old won't take long to 'find' msconfig (or anything else) for themselves

Want a job in a secondary school????

Security is much better these days with access to Run, Notepad &c. and various drives being denied and everything being reset on rebooting, but black text on a black background was popular in Win3.1 days.

Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[wolluf]

BigJohnD,

My son was providing tech support when at Primary School! Not to mention providing his current high school with a website.... (and complaining about level of access he's allowed).

From first encounter with technology, his approach is to hit everything and remember what happens (elephant brain obviously helps). Basically he'll tell you everything a device can/can't do (never mind supposed to) after a reasonably short time!

(My younger daughter's only a little behind - but she prefers chat rooms).

My wife id ICT co-ordinator at a Leeds Primary school - and has a number of pupils who could 'do the job' now!

 

[tsuji]

Hello jmtjet and all,

Just to make a note of reminder on the structure of the pulldown list under StartMenu>Run stored in the registry. From it, one can delete individual entry in the list and/or eliminate the whole list appearing at the dropdown.

[1] Take the current user to start with. The list MRUList is stored in the key with entries:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU]
"a"="msconfig\1"
"b"="regedit\1"
...
"n"="some application\1"
MRUList="ab...fdg...n.."

[2] The order in the MRUList follows not the alphabetical order, but the order of the past calls appeared in the dropdown.

[3] If you delete the valuename MRUList, then upon reboot/relogon the list will be emptied all togethered.

[4] If you delete the individual valuename "a", say, then upon reboot/re-logon, that application will disappear and the rest remains.

[5] If the parent and the child have different logon names, then obviously, when the parent logs on, the current user is them not the child's. But you want to delete child's dropdown list. (When think about it, this situation is ridiculous as the child knows already calling msconfig. So the whole family use same defaut logon is more likely the case for jmtjet. But anyway...) In that case, you look into your child's username and do the same as described above.

[HKEY_USERS\<username>\Software\...etc]

So, this is more-or-less the thing in operation as reflected in the registry.

regards - tsuji