You can edit the page "/umbraco/umbraco.aspx" and add a style to the buttons to set them to display:none. I wuldn't remove them completely, as that might break the context sensitive help. You could also add JQuery to hide the buttons if you wanted to.

The Get Started tabs are pretty easy to hide too. Navigate to config/Dashboard.config and edit in notepad.

Each content area (these are the icons that appear at the bottom right of the back office under Sections ... "Content", "Media" etc) has it's own Get Started tab, so you'll have to comment them out individually.

I'm only concerned about the Get Started tab for the Content section area. Below is the part that I commented out.

    <areas>
      <area>content</area>
    </areas>
<!--
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/startupdashboardintro.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/startupdashboardkits.ascx
      </control>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        /umbraco/dashboard/startupdashboardvideos.ascx
      </control>
    </tab>
-->

That'll do it! It's wise to make a backup copy of Dashboard.config in case you mess it up so that you can revert easily.

is working on a reply...