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Any way to have Admin Tools on Start Menu but not All Programs?

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archcommus

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So I like to see Admin Tools on the Start Menu underneath Control Panel in Vista, but I don't want to see it in the root of All Programs since I have everything categorized in there and no actual program folders in the root. However to display it on the Start Menu you must display it in All Programs as well. Is there any way through the registry or otherwise to hide or remove it from All Programs but keep it on the Start Menu? I already tried hiding the folder, surprisingly didn't work.

Thanks.
 
You can drag-&-drop Admin Tools onto the Start menu and it'll sit in the left-hand panel. That doesn't cause it to appear in All Programs on my system. Would that work for your purposes?

(there is also an option in the Customize Start Menu that may help, screenshot :camera:)
 
Thanks. My goal was to get it in the right-hand column underneath Control Panel like it is when you turn on the middle option in that screenshot. Unfortunately there's no option in that list to have it in the Start menu (right-hand column) but not in All Programs. You can delete the folder from All Programs once it's there, but that's also the folder that the menu in the Start menu points to, so then that list becomes empty. You'd think there'd be a way to change where it points to but doesn't seem like it.
 
I did it! Not that anyone cares, but here's how:

Set it to "Display on the All Programs menu and the Start menu". Hiding the folder in All Programs had no effect in the actual Start menu, and I couldn't move it, but I COULD delete it. So I did, but then that made the menu on the right-side of the Start menu empty since it pointed to that folder. So to get the shortcuts back there, I made a symbolic link in the folder's place that points to where I moved it to under a "Windows" subfolder, using: mklink /d "Administrative Tools" "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Windows\Administrative Tools". So the menu in the Start menu thinks this is a regular folder and then shows all the contents in the other folder. Finally, since this isn't a special folder, it CAN be hidden and it'll actually hide it in the All Programs menu unlike the special real folder, so I went and hid the new link, and that's that.
 
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