Thank you! Works perfectly on both 24H2 Enterprise and IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024. A bit of interest: If I changed the "Education" section (in 2 places) to, for example, "Enterprise", it does not work.
I was just curious and tried it out. Anyway - as I wrote - it works perfectly. (Until Microsoft figures something out.)
Basically you're tricking all UWP apps to think they're running as EDU. And StartMenuExperienceHost is UWP.
.... false to report as edu completly you need to define tenant value... and add setedu policy And report as education are required to disable recommanded section ... try yourself
I had a kludge where I temporarily switched SKU's and restarted StartMenuExperienceHost, but this is cleaner.
I don't have enough applications installed to be sure, but did you change in the settings Personalization > Start > More Pins? Either way I would much prefer a blank space than the recommended section! Thanks OP
Also, this one's ? Code: REM ;; https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/88653/#post-1857484 REM ;; rem Remove Start menu recommended section and setting ads no patch any edition ( proofs ) Reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer" /v "HideRecommendedSection" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f Reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Start" /v "HideRecommendedSection" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f Reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\Education" /v "IsEducationEnvironment" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f Reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /v "Start_IrisRecommendations" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f Reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced" /v "Start_TrackDocs" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f Reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Start" /v "ShowRecentList" /t REG_DWORD /d "0" /f Reg.exe add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer" /v "HideRecommendedSection" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f