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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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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 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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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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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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