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Windows 10 Hiding Admin Tools on Start Menu (GPO)

Good Morning,

We are tweaking the GPO's for our first bulk release of Win 10 to the organization.  We would like to hide the Admin Tools (In the All Apps list) from the general users without having to delete this from the ProgramData folder.

In previous versions of Windows one could set a registry gpo with the value StartMenuAdminTools to 0 located in HKCU\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\ or Add Microsoft.Administrative Tools to the Hide specified Control Panel Items gpo and it would hide it from both the Control Panel and Start Menu.  In Win10 this does not seem to work.

Does one know how to get this out of the start menu without removing the folder/files from the ProgramData folder or creating a start menu layout?

Any help appreciated. 

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Answers (3)

Posted by: rileyz 7 years ago
Red Belt
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I think PressAnyKey or VBScab posted this link?

Anyway check this out

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/disconnect-your-organization-from-microsoft


Scroll down a bit, you find some information that will be helpful on the GPO front - hopefully some in there will do what you require.

Posted by: anonymous_9363 7 years ago
Red Belt
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Not me! :-)

@OP, surely the simplest thing is to use Group Policy Editor to apply it to a sacrificial user, no?

Take a 'Before' snapshot of the registry, apply the GPO, take an 'After' snapshot and you have your registry key/value pair.

Posted by: Dasera 6 years ago
White Belt
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Change the registry value StartMenuAdminTools doesn't work any longer, while the GPO just hides the "Administrative Tools" in control panel. I also couldn't find a way to hide "Administrative Tools" from the Start Menu.

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