To remove button from Ribbon

Following are the steps to remove this button from Ribbon


In Visual Studio 2010:

1. Create an empty SharePoint 2010 Solution , you may give your favorite name to it
2. Add a feature by right clicking on the Features in Solution Explorer
3. Right click on the Project and add a new item, choose empty element and name it
4. Open the Elements.xml file from the newly added item
5. Copy & paste the following XML into the Elements.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

    <CustomAction

     Id="RemoveRibbonButton"

     Location="CommandUI.Ribbon">

       <CommandUIExtension>

           <CommandUIDefinitions>

              <CommandUIDefinition

               Location="Ribbon.Library.Actions.OpenWithExplorer" />

           </CommandUIDefinitions>

       </CommandUIExtension>

    </CustomAction>

</Elements>

Deploy the Solution and observe that “Open with Explorer” button will be removed from the Ribbon.

Without Visual Studio: With SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (PowerShell)

• Create a folder under %Program Files%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\RemoveRibbonButton
• Create a feature.xml file in RemoveRibbonButton.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

 <Feature Id="MyFeatureId"

 Title="Remove button feature"

 Description="Description of the Feature." 

 Version="1.0.0.0" 

 Scope="Web" 

 xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

 <ElementManifests>

  <ElementManifest Location="manifest.xml" />   

  </ElementManifests>

 </Feature>

• Create a blank xml file - manifest.xml in RemoveRibbonButton folder and add the below content to it and Save it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">

    <CustomAction

     Id="RemoveRibbonButton"

     Location="CommandUI.Ribbon">

       <CommandUIExtension>

           <CommandUIDefinitions>

              <CommandUIDefinition

Location="Ribbon.Library.Actions.OpenWithExplorer" />

           </CommandUIDefinitions>

       </CommandUIExtension>

    </CustomAction>

</Elements>

• Deploy the customization using SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (or Windows PowerShell): Install-SPFeature MyFeatureId Enable-SPFeature FeatureId -Url http://server/site/subsite (replace http://server/site/subsite on your site url)