Hide 'Home' link on SharePoint 2010 top menu

In order to hide the 'Home' link on the top menu in SharePoint 2010, please follow the below steps:

1. Open you site master page in SharePoint designer.
2. Locate and delete the below from the master page:
'SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="TopNavigationDataSource"
Id="topNavigationDelegate"'
'Template_Controls'
'/Template_Controls'
'/SharePoint:DelegateControl'

This is required to delete the existing delegate wrapper from the master page.

3. After that change your data source to the below code:

'asp:SiteMapDataSource
ShowStartingNode="False"
SiteMapProvider="CombinedNavSiteMapProvider"
id="topSiteMap"
runat="server"/'

Now you will not see the default home link for the site. You will see only links set up in your navigation.