Start menu - Remove task list (arrow)

Windows Sniper said:

Skalman said:

Thanks for all your replies.

So I guess its not possible to disable these lists all togheter?

Doing what i suggested and the second link that andrew129260 provided will disable the jump lists.

It does not work for me. It does not work for the OP. Do you have a place were you can test CCleaner's list?

Skalman said:

Hi!

No it does not match exactly. I have the box to not show recently used files unchecked.

But I still want to list recently programs, but without the extended menu.

This extra menu appears on different programs, for example CCleaner and Google Chrome.

It is possible to have the list of recent programs and not have the extended menu.

I would rather exhaust all other avenues before I document how I managed that.

Let's wait and see if others in the thread can tell us where we went wrong in following their suggestions.

Wow man, that works great! Thank you so much!

So this means that SYSTEM (computer name?) does not have any write permissions to any of those 2 folders I guess?

This is the batch I wrote so far, it works but could maybe be done in a better way too?

Code:

attrib %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent -r
del /s /q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\*
del /s /q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\*
echo y| cacls %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations /G "%COMPUTERNAME%":R
echo y| cacls %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations /G "%COMPUTERNAME%":R
attrib %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent +r

I'm glad that it works for you.

Your batch file works, but it removes any local user accounts and the administrators group account from those folders. Functionally, that is fine. But I did not want to go quite that far for people that might find this thread later. Hence, my long set of images that might help people undo what they have done if they ever want the lists back.

Hi!
I realized my batch file only worked for some time (it did not completely remove the write rights etc).

I've made some changes which now seems to work for me (My machines are all single-user)

Code:

REM Remove "expandable" menus on start menu (completely, not just recent)

attrib %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent -r

REM Make sure we have ownership of the file first
takeown /s %COMPUTERNAME% /u %USERNAME% /f %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
takeown /s %COMPUTERNAME% /u %USERNAME% /f %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations

REM Delete the files
del /s /q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\*
del /s /q %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations\*

REM Remove inheritance and all rights - only add back the rights we want (read)
icacls %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations /inheritance:r /remove %COMPUTERNAME% /grant %COMPUTERNAME%:(R) /T /C
icacls %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations /inheritance:r /remove %USERNAME% /grant %USERNAME%:(R) /T /C
icacls %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations /inheritance:r /remove %COMPUTERNAME% /grant %COMPUTERNAME%:(R) /T /C
icacls %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CustomDestinations /inheritance:r /remove %USERNAME% /grant %USERNAME%:(R) /T /C

attrib %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent +r

andrew129260 said:

...Tasks for programs in the jump list cannot be removed. Jump lists cannot be completely disabled as far as I know....

Maybe we are talking about different things. Could you show a screenshot of what you are talking about?

Before doing the steps in post#14:




After doing the steps in post#14:



The jump lists and the list of tasks are disabled. They do not come back.




The two batch files in posts 15 and 17 don't perfectly do the steps from post #14 - yet
The SYSTEM account and the Administrators group account is still not handled.