12 March 2012

Disable highlighting newly-installed apps

Turn off highlighting of newly-installed applications in the Start Menu via the registry or GUI. This is for Server 2008 and Windows 7.

Via the registry, set DWORD Start_NotifyNewApps to 0:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\

Via the GUI, Taskbar and Start Menu properties > Start Menu tab > Customize button > Highlight newly installed programs.

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