How do I remove the Documents item on my Start Menu?

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Reboot might be avoided by using
GPupdate /force

Messing around with gpedit.msc and regdt32 can screw up your system real bad. so be careful.

I'd rather use the TweakUI
tool from Microsoft that let's you explore a hundred other hidden features in WinXP, without you having to dig deeep into Windows.

I did this once and Adobe Premiere stopped working. I dunno why, it just did. Looked for the error code and it said removing the documents and such was the cause.

Thank you very much!!!
This is what I want..:)

Thanks so much for direction to the Group Policy editor. Thanks to you, I cleared both "Documents" and "Log Off..." from my Start menu. This was after vainly spending several hours perusing my O'Reilly Windows XP Hacks book and searching The Elder Geek website.

I am running Windows XP Home edition, Classic Start Menu
But on my start menu I do not have the listing for "Documents" as shown in the first image.
How do I add this "Documents" listing on my Start menu?

While tweaking Win Xp (including the tweak shown above), I somehow must have corrupted the registry.

Now, when I try to access the group policy dialog box (run>gpedit.msc) I get an error which says "Snap-in failed to initialize"...
The group policy dialog box comes up with a big red X symbol and states this error: "Snap-in creation failed. The snap-in is not created, it may not be installed properly. Name: Group Policy Object Editor. CLSID: {8FCOB734-AOE1-11D1-A7D3-OOOOF87571E3}"

I have done this tweak on other computers, here in our small office, with no incident.

Any help on restoring this would be greatly appreciated.

Wow...thanks so much. Who needs Tweak XP"...you can do it all right from there.

Much appreciated!!!

Thanks a million.........it helped me remove certain things i didnt want others 2 see......thnx

You can let Winfilter help remove any item from the Start menu. For detail, you can check its website http://updownsoft.com. I am one of its users and think it is very helpful.

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