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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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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.
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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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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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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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'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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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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