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In order to remove the block Estimate Shipping and Tax from the shopping cart page, you should perform the following:






  1. Connect to FTP     using the Filezilla or the File Manager in your Hosting Cpanel.





  2. Copy-paste the checkout.xml file from app/design/frontend/base/default/layoutdirectory to app/design/frontend/tm_themes/themeXXX/layoutdirectory on FTP.





  3. Open the checkout.xml file in app/design/frontend/tm_themes/themeXXX/layout directory with Adobe Dreamweaver or any PHP editor.





  4. Locate this piece of code on line 89:



  5. ?


1 | <block type="checkout/cart_shipping" name="checkout.cart.shipping" as="shipping" template="checkout/cart/shipping.phtml"/>







  2. Comment it out     using <!–…–> tags as on the screenshot below:








  4. Click ‘File’-‘Save’ in Adobe Dreamweaver to save the changes to the file.





  5. If you refresh the shopping cart page, after that you will no longer see the ‘Estimate Shipping and Tax’ block: