Preventing items from being added to the MFU list

The old addage of "Prevention is better than cure" I have found to be true with relation to removing items from the Most Frequently Used (MFU) start menu list.

The following powershell script prevents the Windows Tour icon and Migration settings wizard from being added to the MFU list. Of course, this could be used to prevent any other number of items from being added to the MFU list.

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$TaskDesc = "Clear MFU List"
$AddRemoveApps_New = ";TourStart.exe;MigWiz.exe"
$AddRemoveApps = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Explorer\FileAssociation
-name AddRemoveApps
Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Explorer\FileAssociation
-name AddRemoveApps -value $AddRemoveApps$AddRemoveApps_New

# Test to see if the Registry action succeeded
If ($?) {
Write-Host "Enabled $($TaskDesc)"
} Else {
Write-Host "Error:$($TaskDesc) $($Error[0])"
}

Frequently used programs not automatically added to the Start menu
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q282066/