| Cancelling Intelligent Menus in Windows XP
Classic Mode
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April 6, 2006 - I
received an e-mail from John detailing a
procedure he found for cancelling
(eliminating) the Intelligent Menu's in
Windows XP Classic Mode. As he points
out, these menu's can be annoying. I
wasn't aware the option to turn them off
wasn't available in Classic Mode. I
haven't had the time to personally check
the edits to the registry John details
in his e-mail but they look reasonable.
Just as a reminder, anytime you edit the
registry make sure you have a verified,
restorable system backup in case
something goes wrong.
Thank you, John, for
sending along your findings on this
issue. -- Jim (TEG) |
Here's something
that I couldn't find anywhere, but once I
discovered the solution, I felt I needed to
share it.
Windows XP uses
what, in the registry, it terms as
"IntelliMenus." These "Intelligent Menu's" hide
shortcuts, or links in Favorites, and add an
arrow to expand the menu to show the menu's
entire contents. When the Intelligent Menu is
activated in Internet Explorer, a message pops
up that states it can be turned of using the
Internet Options, but while using the Classic
Windows mode, that option is unavailable.
Here are the
registry entries required to turn them off:
For Internet
Explorer's Favorites folder:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main]
change:
"FavIntelliMenus"="yes"
to
"FavIntelliMenus"="no"
For the Start Menu,
and sub-menus:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
change:
"IntelliMenus"=dword:00000001
to
"IntelliMenus"=dword:00000000
While I'm sure that
many actually like the Intelligent Menus, I find
them annoying. Many times, I wander through my
menus looking for a certain program, or trying
to decide what game to play, and having to
expand menus all of the time gets tedious. These
changes are quite useful, to me.
I discovered these
registry entries last weekend, when I had
finally become so desperate to stop them and
could find no help online, that I searched the
entire registry to finally find them. I
sincerely hope that you will add them to your
site, as I'm sure that there are others just as
annoyed as I was.
John aka Warzog
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