Disable right-click menu and ability to change item order in Start menu

This setting can disable right-click menu in Start menu as well as sub-menus of Start menu. Included to this is applying restrictions on changing the order of items in sub-menus of Start menu.

Level: Recommended For Experts Only

Description:
Normally, users can reorder start menu as well as its sub-menu items by dragging and dropping the item. They can display context menus by right-clicking a start menu item. Applying this registry setting can prevent users from using the drag-and-drop method to reorder items on the start menu. Also, it removes context menus from the start menu. For this, go to start > run, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a dword value nochangestartmenu, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value to 1 which can disable context menu and item reordering from start menu. However, if you want to enable the options back, change the value data to 0 or delete the value. 

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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Go to <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]</b> Now, right-click in the open area to create a DWORD Value with the name "NoChangeStartMenu" in "Explorer" key.

Next, right-click on "NoChangeStartMenu" and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.

Registry Entries

• Path: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]
• Location: Current User
• Value Name: NoChangeStartMenu
• Data Type: DWORD (DWORD Value)
• Enabled Value: 1
• Disabled Value: 0
• Action Type: Add an Entry