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Re: Start 'Menu' Problems

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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 (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
... but, if that was really the case, everything in that folder at the 
time of upgrading to W10 should automatically appear on a user's Start 
Menu, but it doesn't; moreover, there doesn't seem to be a folder that 
contains the bloat crap that does appear on a user's Start Menu, so I 
think it must now be held in the registry somewhere.

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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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