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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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