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Re: Start 'Menu' Problems

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)
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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.

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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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