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Re: Start 'Menu' Problems

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On 2025-02-10 19:24, Java Jive wrote:
> On 2025-02-10 19:03, MikeS wrote:
>>
>> On 10/02/2025 19:00, MikeS wrote:
>>>
>>> Meant to write
>>>
>>> .. simply right click each profile shortcut and select the pin option.
> 
> Exactly what I was trying to do, but it behaves as described in my OP. 
> The only thing that's different from what you describe is that, to get 
> it to work in W7, I had to create the two file links (note, file links 
> using mklink, not shortcut links) to thunderbird.exe.  Perhaps if in W10 
> I replace the file links in the command lines of the two shortcuts with 
> thunderbird directly it might work?  Given what happened in Windows 7 it 
> would be completely illogical, so maybe that's a sign that it will work! 
>   I will try it later and report back.

Yup!  As illogical as predicted, that worked!  So, to clarify ...

W7:  Use mklink to create file links to thunderbird.exe with different 
names, in my case ...
     thunderbird_mail.exe
     thunderbird_news.exe
... and then in the shortcut 'Target' field replace the part of the 
commandline that is ...
     <path>\thunderbird.exe
... with, using the mail version as an example for both, ...
     <possibly different path>\thunderbird_mail.exe

W10:  Leave alone, or undo the above, as appropriate.

The kindest interpretation is that M$ realised that the W7 situation is 
a bug, and fixed it by the time of W10, but even so, their new method of 
creating these things is a pig's dinner compared with the old:

     -  If you use different icons to distinguish between the two in W7, 
the choices of icon are not respected in W10, so, if in W10 you use 
small icons that don't display the text name, you can't tell which is which.

     -  In W10, you can't expand or contract the Start Menu tile area to 
just nicely contain the number of tiles that you want.  I don't have 
many, so am forced to have a large blank area unnecessarily hiding part 
of the screen.

     -  Although you can drag them about and reorder them, the natural 
ordering of the tiles is across then down, whereas most hardcopy lists 
in real life are down then across.  True, the latter sometimes might be 
slightly more work to program, but why not give your users what they are 
already used to?  This is true also of Explorer views, Control Panel, etc.

Thanks for your post, it has taught me that, despite the above, perhaps 
I can use the Start Menu tiles after all.

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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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