I got it to remove the Administration with the same code as above just had to make sure what it was called. now I am trying to remove all calls for items in the Owner_Block which should be done the same way.

The only issue I am now having is with removing Izaps Video and HypeGallery Owner_Block menu item

The only issue I am now having is with removing Izaps Video and HypeGallery from the Owner_Block menu. Dose any one know how these are called as I have looked through the start.php and must be blind

some menus are context sensitive, eg. the owner block, entity menu, and the user hover menu all need to know what owner/entity/user the menu is for.  This can't be done at the time of initialization, so it uses a plugin hook system.  Seems complicated at first but it's actually really useful and extensible.

http://community.elgg.org/discussion/view/713340/elgg-blog-elggs-new-menu-system-registering-a-menu-item

http://blog.elgg.org/pg/blog/cash/read/191/elggs-new-menu-system-dynamic-menus

So what you want to do is register a handler for the 'register', 'menu:owner_block'.  The return value of the handler is an array of the menu items, so in your handler you add/edit/remove any of the menu items you choose.

@Matt Beckett Thanks for the adivce and that is the way I was going I just can not seam to figure out what Izaps Videos and the HypeGallery call for there menu items so I can disable them in the manner you discribed.

Have asked on the plugin pages so will have to just wait and see.

@FusionOz: the developers plugin bundled with Elgg core can be used to find out which callback functions are registered for particular plugin hooks (in admin backend: "Develop" - "Tools" - "Inspect").

For example you can check which functions are registered for the 'register', 'menu:owner_block' plugin hook. If you know the name, you can search in the plugin code for these functions. The functions itself are not necessarily within start.php (while the elgg_register_plugin_hook_handler() call normally is). Fulltext search ("grep") on the code should tell you where the callback functions are.