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By Abhishek Ghosh January 18, 2011 8:08 pm Updated on January 18, 2011

How to remove “Pin to Start Menu” in right click context menu in Windows 7

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How to remove "Pin to Start Menu" in right click context menu in Windows 7

In earlier tutorial, we have shown, how to remove “Pin to Taskbar” from right click context menu. Some users do not need the option œPin to Start Menu in right click context menu in Windows 7. This option unnecessarily makes the right click context menu bigger for them. In that case, user may want to remove Pin to Start Menu option. In this tutorial, we will show, how to remove pin to Start Menu option from right click option menu.

Click Start button, type œregedit (without the quotation marks) and press Enter from keyboard. Accept the security prompt to run Windows registry editor:

How to remove "Pin to Start Menu" in right click context menu in Windows 7

Go to the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Classes \ * \ shellex \ ContextMenuHandlers \{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8} :

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How to remove Pin to Start Menu in right click context menu in Windows 7-1

Simply, delete the key {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}.

There will be no Pin to Start Menu option in right click context menu now:

How to remove Pin to Start Menu in right click context menu in Windows 7-2

In case, you want to get back the Pin to Start Menu again, just download this rar file, double click the registry file inside to run it. Pin to Start Menu will be back again. The zip file contains two registry files: one to enable the Pin to Start Menu in right click context menu, another to remove the option to Pin to Start Menu in right click context menu.

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