Comment 15 for bug 116080

The freedesktop.org menus are the most complex out of all operating systems out there, and wine goes through a laborious process to make them.

Removing them is not simple. I believe wine does remove the .lnk files in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/start menu and such, but the mapping between .lnk files and freedesktop menus is currently one-way.

A while back I thought up a scheme where explorer monitors the .lnk menus and the freedesktop menus and syncs them in real-time. But there are more problems, like if you delete a freedesktop menu it will be recreated as long as the .lnk file is there, unless you keep another list of created menus and don't create a freedesktop menu twice, but you have to keep track of .lnk deletions and remove from that list...

Yes, it's an incredible amount of work.