XP Start Menu Tweaks

I'm working on an HP laptop at the moment and on the very bottom of the
right side of the start menu is a menu item for an "HP Info Center".

Above it is a seperator line and then the standard "Run..." "Search" and
"Help and Support" items.

1) Is there a way to remove this item without uninstalling the program?
There are no options if i right click on it and I can't click and drag it.

2) How was it put there? And can I also add buttons in that section of the
Start Menu? I did some searching and the closest I've come to a way to do
that is to do a registry hack to replace one of the standard buttons with
your own. According to everything I've read what HP did is impossible. My
only guess is that it's a custom build of XP that came with the laptop.




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