Start menu on Vista

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1807/cantdeletesy4.jpg

There's no option to delete.
If you know of a website that I can post movies (not like youtube, I don't want everyone seeing my desktop there) I may post a movie of me trying to drag the shortcut to the recycle bin or desktop. When I try to take them to the bin, the mouse pointer becomes that "forbidden" symbol. When I take them to the desktop, they just make a new shortcut...
 
That's because Gateway limits your administrative access in some way. When simply dragging anything above the Programs link into the recycle bin here it stays in there until highlighted and I click the restore button on the menu bar. Those seen there are also shortcuts as well as what is on the desktop itself.

One tool may just be your answer there called TakeOwnership. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

That's a small registry mod that adds the take administrative control option in the right click menu for overriding any previous permissions settings giving you full access. After putting in it on you simply right click on the item you first drag to the desktop and choose that option as well as making sure the read only box or other things are not set in the properties.

From there simply drag it right into the recycle bin or right click to choose delete followed by emptying the recycble bin to see those gone. It also works in XP as well as Vista from what I've seen on both versions.
 
I have installed the TakeOwnership.

However, there's no TakeOwnership option in when I right-click these programs.
Do I have to takeownership on the whole Start Menu (there's that option when i right-click the start menu)?
 
That would be one way to override whatever is preventing removal that will provide full administrative access over whatever Gateway used. Give that a try!

Having a custom build with no preinstalled OS here I wouldn't be able to say that it will or won't. That was a recently found tool first seen for Vista until tried out here on XP.
 
Besides choosing the run as adminstrator option to get nowhere you simply have only 2 or 3 choices left. The first is the one you don't seem to want of simply ignoring the fact they are shown by default or you can totally wipe the preinstallation off of the drive for a pointless effort. The third option is far easily then anything!

Aero style or Classic?

 
I use aero.

I have uninstalled the promotional content from Gateway (aol, netzero...).
What I see now I believe is from Microsoft.
 
Well the way to see all those removed is to simply switch to the Classic view since those are included in Vista and not separate items you can easily remove. The "eye candy" they put into the new version also tends to an extra grab on resources as well.
 
i had icons on the recent programs list that i wanted to remove and i right clicked removed from list and they stayed there untill you restart the comp try that from what i have read you havent rebooted yet? if you have ignore what i am saying free bump to get this fixed for you

this also happend when i tryed to delete a shortcut off my desktop to a program that i uninstalled already didnt disappear till i rebooted
 
stixdz, it is actually the opposite that happens to me. The icons are immediately removed, but return after reboot.
 
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