With Windows 7 you can easily hide Media Center menu item strips from the Windows Media Center UI but Windows Vista does not have this feature. You could go in to the registry and hide items from there but mikinho in TGB forums has come up with a nice little application so you don’t have to hack your system
Download: http://www.mikinho.com/wmc/menustrips/HideMediaCenterStrips.exe
More details on The Green Button forums
good idea but i think MC Menu mender does the same thing , good find anyway and Ian and well done to the developer of the app