Would you like to learn how to configure a group policy to remove all programs from the Start menu? In this tutorial, we will show you how to remove programs from the Start menu of a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7
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Tutorial GPO - Remove all programs from the Start menu
On the domain controller, open the group policy management tool.
Create a new group policy.
Enter a name for the new group policy.
In our example, the new GPO was named: MY-GPO.
On the Group Policy Management screen, expand the folder named Group Policy Objects.
Right-click your new Group Policy Object and select the Edit option.
On the group policy editor screen, expand the User configuration folder and locate the following item.
Access the folder named Start menu and Taskbar.
Enable the option named Remove all programs list from the Start menu.
Select the option named Collapse and disable settings.
To save the group policy configuration, you need to close the Group Policy editor.
Congratulations! You have finished the GPO creation.
Tutorial - Applying the GPO to remove programs from the Start menu
On the Group policy management screen, you need to right-click the Organizational Unit desired and select the option to link an existent GPO.
In our example, we are going to link the group policy named MY-GPO to the root of the domain.
On a remote computer, verify if all programs were removed from the Start menu.
In our example, we removed all programs from the Start menu using a GPO.
