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Why do Windows 10 / Windows 11 copied/pasted shortcuts not appear, but newly created ones do?
With Windows 10/11 you can access the start menu items in these locations:
"%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"
%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\...
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Is there a PowerShell, Batch, or VBS script that can automatically pin the recycle bin to the start menu?
The recycle bin doesn't show up when you type it into the start menu which seems incredibly moronic. I am able to create a shortcut and pin it to the start menu so it shows up, but I'd like to ...
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broken start menu shortcut doesn't link to correct folder
The start menu in windows 10 has shortcuts to the user folders on the left (ie music, documents, etc). Somehow the program CUEtools changed the Music shortcut to link to another folder, and i have no ...
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Where are the missing shortcuts of the Start menu?
Using W10 21H2.
Start menu shortcuts are usually located in two folders:
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
So customizing the Start ...
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Windows custom keyboard shortcut has delay of 3 seconds
I created a shortcut in C:\Users\guill\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Ubuntu and when I press the combination of keys then there is a delay of 3 seconds before the app starts.
I ...
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How to pin .lnk files to taskbar in PowerShell?
I have seen many similar questions posted on stackoverflow.com, but this is different, and before you are wondering, why don't I post the question on stackoverflow.com? Because I am currently banned ...
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Two paths for Win10 start shortcuts
Few of my shortcuts in Start suddenly disappeared. When I tried to discover why, I found that there are two paths for shortcuts in Start:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
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C:\...
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Windows 10 start menu entry missing that target same exe [duplicate]
I want two entries in the Windows 10 Start menu for the same application:
one for normal Start and another one for Start as administrator (elevated), so I no longer need to use the context menu.
I ...
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Is it possible to have multiple shortcuts of windows cmd in the start menu?
In windows 10, I would like to pin multiple shortcuts of cmd.exe to the start to have them execute different preset commands in different folders.
However, when I add a second, differently ...
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Windows 10 Start Menu Search Indexing Fields (Filename only? Apparently not!)
So here's a question that I haven't been able to find the answer to anywhere:
What field(s) does Windows 10 use to index files by whenever performing a start menu search? The obvious answer would be ...
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How to change the Start Menu shortcut action for all users in Windows 10?
I set up a Cygwin/X environment in my Windows 10 computer and it created a Start Menu shortcut for all users, named XWin Server.
However, I need to change the shortcut to enable TCP connections. To ...
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Start menu duplicate Shortcuts
After the last Windows update (Creators Update) I have a serious problem in the start menu...
Some shortcuts are duplicate.
So far I tried various methods without any luck:
Remove from start (I ...
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Shortcut created with script not showing up in Start Menu
I've just started trying to use nircmd. When I made a shortcut in a batch script, the shortcut was successfully created in the folder for my user's Start Menu > All Apps (%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\...
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When pinning to web shortcuts to a windows 10 tile, the icon changes
I have created windows shortcuts to web sites I often visit, I have then manually set the icon of the shortcut to the logo of the website
These are web shortcuts where the shortcut target looks like ...
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How to add a program to the Windows 10 "all apps" start menu section when windows refuses to do so?
Afer upgrading to Win 10, I was trying to add shortcuts of my programs to the "all apps" start menu section through copying the program shortcuts to %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs. ...
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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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Norton Internet Security Has Removed All The Shortcuts From My Start Menu?
First the Start Menu shortcuts were there, and then they disappeared. I'm using Norton Internet Security 18.6.0.29. I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem; perhaps it's a setting somewhere in ...
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Windows 7 Start Menu / Taskbar shortcut icon issue
I'm running Win7 Ultimate x64, and have Visual Studio 2010 installed. The other day I mis-clicked and deleted the VS2010 program folder; I realised my mistake the next time I started the PC and ...
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How do I get rid of the extra options on a pinned program on the start menu
In Windows 7 when I pin certain programs, somehow there is something that allows them to have a sub menu. Examples of this are both Firefox (Enter private browsing) and Chrome (New window, New ...
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Pinned and recent programs disappeared from start menu
I tried to help out my father, but was unable to fix this: For his account the start menu pinned and recent programs disappeared. Programs can only be started by links on the Desktop or by going via "...
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Pinned start menu/taskbar shortcuts gone
I just restarted my Windows 7 PC to find all my pinned shortcuts have disappeared from the start menu and taskbar. I've looked here
"%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick ...
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Clicking "Run", "Search","Help and Support" in Start Menu Problems
I've got a problem with my start menu.
I was playing a bit deleting some context menu entries. Now every time I click the "Run","Search" or "Help and Support" icons I get:
"Windows Cannot create a ...
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How to change start menu location for Windows 7 Programs
I keep my start menu in Windows 7 very organized, but every time there's a program update available (Safari for example), the program recreates its shortcut icons in the default start menu location ...
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Where do Start Menu\All Programs shortcuts reside?
What is the Windows 7 equivalent of each these Windows XP locations?
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\
C:\Documents ...
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Why doesn't Vista create shortcuts in Start menu?
I am using Windows Vista Home Premium (64-bit) on a system with 64-bit processor. Whenever I install a PC game, Vista does not create any shortcuts or program folders in "Start Menu -> All Programs". ...
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Programs have disappeared from Windows 7 Start Menu [closed]
I am running (and love) Windows 7 RC1 on my machine.
In the first real weird thing I have seen in Windows 7 -- all of my programs have disappeared from the start menu. So if I click the start ...
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