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| From | Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Start 'Menu' Problems |
| Date | 2025-02-10 17:27 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vodcui$1a9mm$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vod2kc$18bhc$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.4213c8ce8ac411e19903b1@news.individual.net> |
On 2025-02-10 16:27, Stan Brown wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:31:38 +0000, Java Jive wrote: >> >> If your original W7 Start Menu had two versions of a program >> *anywhere* in it - as does mine, twice over, because besides the >> current version of Firefox I have an older version with a different >> profile for debugging my website, and I have two Thunderbird profiles, >> one for mail, and the other for news - then Windows, even Windows 7, >> is incapable of distinguishing between the two. > > I haven't tried this, but the start menu shortcuts are > in > "%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs" > Can you give different names to the shortcuts to the > running with the two profiles? They already have different names, otherwise they could not exist in the same folder, but Windows 10+ ignores their names, tries to be too clever by half by looking at the program actually loaded, and thus only achieves a useless FU. -- Fake news kills! I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk
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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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