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Mar17
Removing Start Menu Strips From Windows 7 Media Center
Continuing where he left off with adding menu strips to 7MC, Michael Healy from Hack7MC has now posted a how to on removing strips from the menu. I know for me, I have no need for the sports strip or the Movies strip. I certainly wouldn’t mind getting rid of them so I can clean up the UI a little bit. This is the guide I’ll be using to do it.
From the post:
Once you have “Startmenu.xml” opened in Notepad 2007 you will see a couple of folders ad some xmlns declarations in the left hand pane. It will most likely be quite intimidating to anyone not familiar with XML but we can ignore these for now and just expand “home:StartMenuData”. Then expand the next three folders inside, “Categories”, “constraints:ConstrainedList” and “Source”. Now you should see a large list of folders.
We aren’t concerned with the first twenty of these folders as they are placeholders for the extra programs strip. After these first placeholder folders you will notice a couple of folders marked “constraints:ConstrainedItem”. These are the first few start menu strips, pictures and folders.
Thanks to Michael for keeping up the great work and allowing the rest of us to make 7MC what we want it to be!
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