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How to Add context menu entries for Windows 10 start menu tiles?

It is possible to add custom context menu items and submenus throughout Windows Explorer via registry entries and dlls. However, this does not add those items to the Start Menu/Screen in Windows 8/8.1/10 etc. Is there a different way to add…
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URL Start menu entry missing on Windows 10 although installed

I have a "normal" Setup and a "Pro" Setup of the same application. They have many things in common, so I use an #include "CommonThings.iss" Both versions can be installed in parallel, because they have a different AppId. In the common definition, I…
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Windows10 script pin app to start menu

I have a Universal App that I'm sideloading in Windows10. I would like to create a script (Powershell, VBS, batch, etc) to pin it to the Start Menu. I have found many examples of how to write a script that pins a desktop application (like this…
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How to get larger jumplist in Start Menu for long filenames

I'm using Windows 7 Professional x64 and I have been trying to increase the width of the Start Menu for the jumplist without any success. The problem is, I work with several files that have similar names, then when I pin these files to the jumplist…
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How to detect when the Windows start menu / start screen opens?

How to setup an event-handler or callback for the Windows start menu (or Windows 8 start screen) opening? Or, at least, how to check if the start menu is currently open? I prefer a solution for this problem in C#, but a solution in C++ is also…
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Is it possible to show a window in front of the Start screen?

Is it possible to show a window on top of the Start screen in Windows 8? So far I've tried this.TopMost = true; But it does not work.
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Creating Windows 8 Start screen groups and tiles (not only for exes) with Inno Setup

We are using Inno Setup to build installers for our ActiveX grid control. With the release of Win8, two new questions arose: Is it possible to create our own new group of tiles on the Start screen (with a specified name) to place our…
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Open the start menu right next the program?

I've been researching how to open the Start Menu programmatically, but the problem is that I'd like it to open it right next to the application I'm creating. I'm making a toolbar at the top of the screen with a button to open the start menu, but I'd…
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How to enable Start Menu in Windows 8?

Can anyone give me some hack or provide some way, by which I can enable the Start Menu in Windows 8. I am finding hard to use Windows 8 without Start Menu. I dont have any problem, If I need to write a Custom Code in .Net to enable it.
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Can I create/update Windows 8 Start menu tiles from my WinApi application?

I have a regular Windows API (not metro) application that I would like to have a live (periodically updating) Start Menu tile on Windows 8, instead of a static start menu shortcut. I tried to navigate the MSDN maze related to this topic, but it…
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Is there a better way to find a user's Start Menu?

For me, my Start Menu is located at %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu Is there a system folder reference to use in a batch file that doesn't rely on it being in this place? I would like the script to work for XP and up, but I am running Windows…
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How to pin to start menu using PowerShell

I can pin some programs to taskbar on Win7 using PowerShell. $shell = new-object -com "Shell.Application" $folder = $shell.Namespace('C:\Windows') $item = $folder.Parsename('notepad.exe') $verb = $item.Verbs() | ? {$_.Name -eq 'Pin to…
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How can I start new project from the Visual studio start menu?

In my Windows 7 Start menu, when I open the Visual Studio sub-menu, it shows my “pinned” projects and also my recently opened projects: This is quite useful and can speed up opening the project a lot (because I can do something else while Visual…
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Updating Visual Studio screws up Programs shortcuts

First, I do apologize if this question has been asked and answered before. (I am capable of internet searching but simply cannot find an answer anywhere!) The (recurring) problem is that whenever I do a Windows Update that includes Visual Studio…
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How to get the icon of an app by it's AppID given by Get-StartApps on Windows 10 and above

I get the StartApps from Windows via Get-StartApps (powershell) which gives me the Name and the AppID. I need to get the icon of of the app via it's id to be able to display it (or at least the absolute path to the executable). But most AppID…
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