New method to Hide the Recommended section in the W11 Start Menu

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[garlin]

Previously, it's been confirmed that the GPO to hide W11 Start Menu's Recommended section only works for Education & Enterprise editions.

The known workarounds for Pro edition include:

- Installing ExplorerPatcher, or Windhawk's mod for Windows 11 Start Menu Styler (both might break after a new Windows update)​

- Switching your KMS license from Pro to EDU with "slmgr.vbs /ipk"​

- Restarting StartMenuHostExperience.exe while the license is temporarily set to EDU​

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There was a new thread on MDL, reporting a different workaround:
https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...etting-ads-no-patch-any-edition-proofs.88653/

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"HideRecommendedSection"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Start]
"HideRecommendedSection"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Education]
"IsEducationEnvironment"=dword:00000001

 

[Mu Wupp]

The Registry Tweak works for sure and is the easiest Way to accomplish this.