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Few shortcuts and start button become unresponsive for a few seconds after startup
Right after Windows (8.1) starts, I'm able to open folders using the shortcuts I set up in an AHK script, for two to three seconds.
But then, few keys become unresponsive:
the start button
the ...
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Windows 10 start menu missing certain types of shortcuts
I created my own shortcuts to a couple of HTML Help documents, and placed the shortcuts into my Start Menu folder here:
C:\Users\Misha\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
However, ...
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Windows 10 Start menu Downloads shortcut is broken
With a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro, I enabled Downloads shortcut to appear on Start menu. However when I click on it nothing happens. Other shortcuts such as Documents, Music etc all work fine. Is ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu Editing [duplicate]
It seems that on Windows 10 I cannot add new items to the "All apps" part of the Start Menu. I tried moving a shortcut to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs, but the program did not ...
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How do I add a new program to the Start Menu?
I just added the latest version of the Eclipse IDE to my computer. Eclipse is distributed as a ZIP file, so I unzipped it into a directory in C:\Program Files like I've done for past versions of ...
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Toshiba windows 7 laptop, all icons the same [duplicate]
all desktop icons the same and when I try to open it says this action is valid for products that are already installed. when I enter regedit in the search it says the same thing so i can't even fix it ...
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Open Windows Start Menu with a batch file?
Is it possible to create a batch file that will open the Windows Start Menu?
I have been digging around in the Windows Registry, have searching the Internet, and just tried making things up as I go. ...
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Most common locations for shortcuts on Windows (Start Menu, Desktop, Quick Launch...)
I'm searching for the most common locations for a user's shortcuts, that are quickly accessible, like the Desktop, Start Menu and Quick Launch. This should work from XP on through to 8.1.
I'm ...
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Windows 7 - How do I add an exe to the Start menu which is on a network drive?
SOLUTION: You cannot add items to the start menu if they reside on a network drive, so move the item to a local drive and then add to the start menu in the normal way (as suggested in the accepted ...
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Categorizing apps in Windows 7 start menu?
Is there any way to group related applications in Start Menu? Let's say I have a few Graphic software and a bunch of IDEs and I want to put them in a single item. Is it possible?
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'All Programs' Shortcuts are missing
Using Windows 7, when I go to Start -> All Programs I can see the full structure and all of the shortcuts, but when I click on one, nothing happens. I navigated to:
C:\Users\myusername\AppData\...
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How to add My documents shortcut to the right-hand column on the start menu?
How do I add "My documents" (or other folder shortcuts) to the right column (grey-tinted) on the start menu in Windows 7?
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Uninstalling a program doesn't remove shortcuts from Start menu
This problem started very recently after a system restore.
Each time I uninstall a program, it uninstalls correctly but the shortcuts remain in the Start menu. I can easily delete them by right-...
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Windows 7 is installing Start menu shortcuts to a "test" folder on my desktop
I tidied up my Start menu a while back, organised it into folders and removed programs I do not access. This was also around the time I changed the location of my My Documents/Desktop etc folders via ...
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Windows 7 has broken icons that look the same
My daughter has done something to her Windows 7 PC, but I'm not sure what and she can't quite remember. She is not an Administrator on her machine so it perturbs me that she has broken it so well. ...
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