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How to create a custom windows metro style icon or tile?

We are a software developer and our software installer creates start menu shortcuts. The shortcuts look great except in windows 10, primarily because our icon is blue and the metro styling creates a blue background. Thus, after research I've…
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How to add arguments to StartLayout for Microsoft Chromium Edge tile when it doesn't accept Desktop Link tile?

Trying to setup a multi-app Provisional Package with a browser in Kiosk mode. Seemingly Microsoft Edge Dev Start tile has to use DesktopApplicationID as DesktopApplicationLinkPath to Edge gets the tile ignored. No such issue with Chrome as it is not…
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How to add start menu shortcut with install4j silent installer

How can i add start menu shortcut with the install4j silent installer. Though i am able to add desktop shortcut with the help of one variable present in the response file. But for the start menu i did not find any variable or any switch. So please…
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IDLE python IDE launches differently when opened from start menu link than from actual folder

(I can work around this but I am curious as to why it happens.) I have the standard installation of Python on Windows 10. I also have the Anaconda package installed. I noticed that when I started IDLE from the start menu it launched thus Python…
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How to assign the icon name shown in pinned start tile menu of Windows 10 with Delphi 10.2

I know the default icon name pinned in start menu is that of exe file. But the pinned icon name of bds.exe which is Rad Studio exe file shows 'RAD Studio 10.2' in start menu. How can I set the name like the above? I tried to change all names of…
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Pin tiles inside of existing groups inside of Windows 10

I am working on a rollout of customized start menus for a large number of end users and PC's. Due to the complexity of the roles, creating and importing XML is not ideal. I have not found any resource on adding pinning tiles inside of menu groups or…
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Removing exe from windows startmenu quick launch

For work we have two shortcuts that get installed to the start menu with both of them pointing to the same exe (but the second with different command line arguments). Some times windows will pick the second shortcut to display in the start menu hot…
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wix windows 10 startmenu with multiple shortcuts

so I have a msi that creates two startmenu folders. I want to put multiple shortcuts in the startmenu folder but on windows 10 it only puts the first shortcut. but if I use the same msi on a windows 7 build all the shortcuts are there. All the files…
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Customize Windows 10 Start Menu

I have a potential requirement of modifying the Windows 10 Start Menu structure. I know that you can customize the groups and tiles: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/deploymentguys/2016/03/07/windows-10-start-layout-customization/ My question is…
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inno setup PrivilegesRequired lowest start menu

In Windows 10, with INNO setup, I have PrivilegesRequired=lowest and AlwaysUsePersonalGroup=yes, but do not get any Start Menu icons. Is this correct behavior? I there a way around it?
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Inno Setup doesn't place Start menu items in proper group

I'm not sure what in the world I'm doing wrong.. I could swear I've set everything right, but it keeps putting the start menu item in the wrong place. As you can see here it says its doing it right. You can see all my files on github…
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Import StartMenu.xml onto existing users profile

I have designed a startmenu layout that I wish to apply to another machine. I have exported the xml file through the following command: export-startlayout –path C:\layout.xml However, simply switching "export" with "import" doesn't seem to work…
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Does windows 10 Start menu support folders with custom icon?

I have my c# application where i create desktop.ini inside each folder to assign a custom icon to my folder. It works fine in windows 7.But in windows 10,it does not work.If I go to start menu…
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Creating a Windows 7 Taskbar Icon

My Goal I want to make it so that, on first run, my program will make its icon appear in the Windows 7 Taskbar. I know that the icon files are shortcuts in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User…
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Windows Explorer & custom shortcut file types

Windows has a flag in file registrations called "IsShortcut". When this flag is set, the file is automatically given the shortcut icon overlay and is treated as a shortcut in other ways (for instance, when you right click and select "Create…
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