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Re: Start 'Menu' Problems

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On 2/10/2025 12:50 PM, Java Jive wrote:
> On 2025-02-10 16:45, Newyana2 wrote:
>>
>> On 2/10/2025 9:31 AM, Java Jive wrote:
>>
>>> Rant:  This is the sort of exasperating, maddening time-wasting shit 
>>> that happens every time I try and domesticate Windows 10 or 11, and 
>>> usually I just give up and revert to 7, which, though it took a long 
>>> time a while back, I was able in the end to house-train sufficiently 
>>> to make it ergonomically efficient and thus very usable.  I've never 
>>> been able to achieve this in Windows 10 or 11.
>>
>>    As Stan indicated, the solution is to clean up the Start
>> Menu folders. (There's yours and all users. I just put
>> everything into all users for convenience.) I create
>> folders, like Office, Utilities, etc. Then I delete all but
>> actual program shortcuts, name them as desired, and
>> put them in the approriate folder.
> 
> I did all that for the original W7 Start Menu that works, but neither of 
> you seem to have noticed that the Start Menu folders, system or user, 
> are largely ignored in Windows 10

   Ah. Sorry, I didn't know that. To my mind the Win10/11 Start
  Menus are so bad that I've never really used them. I just install
Classic/Open Shell and it works as expected.


  (actually IMS it's Windows 8+).  What
> determines what 'tiles' appear on the RHS of a given user's Start Menu 
> in Windows 10?  I, a Windows user since 3.1 of some 40 years standing, 
> who has created all the Windows builds used in a major UK financial 
> business, have no fucking idea.
> 
> *Logically* and *rationally* (terms that Microsoft programmers don't 
> seem to understand) you'd expect there to be a sub-folder of the user's 
> profile containing the icons that the user has pinned to Start.  Based 
> on Windows 7, I'd expect it to be ...
>   %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick 
> Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu

  You lost me there. I use Quick Launch on the taskbar. (Which must be
set up in Windows 10.) I don't know
from Start Menu pinning. The solution I offered was only for once you
actually open the Programs menu on the Start Menu. The folders and
shortcuts in the Start Menu folders are felected there as menus and
submenus.

My Start Menu folders are as follows:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

As noted, I combine the two in all users, leaving nothing in my
personal folder. https://i.postimg.cc/JnznQkWk/startmenu.jpg

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Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 14:31 +0000
  Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-10 15:17 +0000
    Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 16:47 +0000
    Re: Start 'Menu' Problems mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2025-02-10 17:21 +0000
  Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2025-02-10 08:27 -0800
    Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 17:27 +0000
  Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-10 11:45 -0500
    Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 17:50 +0000
      Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-10 13:19 -0500
        Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 19:14 +0000
      Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-10 20:21 +0000
  Re: Start 'Menu' Problems MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> - 2025-02-10 19:00 +0000
    Re: Start 'Menu' Problems MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> - 2025-02-10 19:03 +0000
      Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-10 19:24 +0000
        Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-11 13:25 +0000
          Re: Start 'Menu' Problems MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> - 2025-02-12 13:56 +0000
            Re: Start 'Menu' Problems Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-02-12 18:04 +0000

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