Remove or hide menu options ?

[Vongalin]

Is there an easy way to simply disable menu items ? Specifically the YouTube one. I cannot stand YouTube and would rather not see it at all - it's one of the last items on my "should I buy this" checklist.

Thanks.

[Ben Tex]

Maybe with a hack, but not straight up. Doing a factory restore should take you back to Apple TV 1.0. That means YouTube will not show up. But you will lose iPhoto streaming a few other little things here and there.

[MCeeP]

I believe if you look in the parental options you can hide YouTube. I know i did it once, but had to do a restore at some point and haven't bothered to look for it again. I don't think any other menu options are hideable though.

[Ben Tex]

[cerasie]

The simplest and safest way to hide menu items is to do as follows
1) open a terminal window on your mac/pc
2) ssh into the appleTV (ssh -1 frontrow@AppleTV.local or ssh -1 frontrow@IP_Address)
3) enter the plugin directory i.e. /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/PlugIns
4) enable writing on the Apple TV (sudo mount -uw /)
5) rename the YT.frappliance to something like YT.frappliance.old (mv YT.frappliance YT.frappliance.old)
6) disable writing on the AppleTV (sudo mount -ur /)


When you restart the finder or reboot the YouTube menu setting will disappear.