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problem with start menu
when I try to start my programs from the start menu, nothing happens, it
doesn't freeze but nothing opens. The only way I can get to a program is through the run command. |
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problem with start menu
"carrie" wrote in message
... when I try to start my programs from the start menu, nothing happens, it doesn't freeze but nothing opens. The only way I can get to a program is through the run command. 1. Check for viruses. 2. The start menu is only a standard windows folder c:\windows\start menu that contains links (files of type *.LNK) to various apps and DOC files; so you can rebuild it by brute force (cut and paste). Just make sure the folder exists: c:\windows\start menu Then you can move into it any LNK you like. It makes sense to group them. The Start Menu gets too long if you just let it grow with every new app. It makes sense to create new folders e.g. c:\windows\start menu\graphics c:\windows\start menu\wordpro and just move into these all LNK files for the same or similar functions; and then delete all the parent folders generated at installation for every separate app. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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problem with start menu
"carrie" wrote in message
... when I try to start my programs from the start menu, nothing happens, it doesn't freeze but nothing opens. The only way I can get to a program is through the run command. 1. Check for viruses. 2. The start menu is only a standard windows folder c:\windows\start menu that contains links (files of type *.LNK) to various apps and DOC files; so you can rebuild it by brute force (cut and paste). Just make sure the folder exists: c:\windows\start menu Then you can move into it any LNK you like. It makes sense to group them. The Start Menu gets too long if you just let it grow with every new app. It makes sense to create new folders e.g. c:\windows\start menu\graphics c:\windows\start menu\wordpro and just move into these all LNK files for the same or similar functions; and then delete all the parent folders generated at installation for every separate app. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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problem with start menu
"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
... [] It makes sense to group them. The Start Menu gets too long if you just let it grow with every new app. It makes sense to create new folders e.g. c:\windows\start menu\graphics c:\windows\start menu\wordpro and just move into these all LNK files for the same or similar functions; and then delete all the parent folders generated at installation for every separate app. [] Agreed - though doing it that way means the uninstall routine, should you come to try to use it, doesn't know where they are, and leaves them (but Start Menu Cleaner - or other app.s, but I like SMC as it's simple - will find and prompt for their removal). An alternative, provided the install routine allows (most, though not all, do), is: do as Don suggests and make some generic ones (I have things like netstuff, hardware, text.etc, images, ... - IIRR I also put a # or two before them, which [a] shows they're mine [b] makes them come at the top, at least in the shell I use), then when a new app. asks where to put its shortcuts, suggesting something like newapp , I just stick my one before it, thus netstuff\newapp , which then puts it as a submenu under netstuff, and uninstall knows where to find it. (If your generic names are too long to type easily, _copy_ [e. g. Ctrl-C] the suggested new name, select your generic from the list shown, type \ at its end, and paste [Ctrl-V] the new one.) If you know the new app. is only going to make one shortcut, then I'd say just override the suggested folder name with one of your existing ones - I find single-entry submenus to the start menu somewhat irritating - but YMMV! |
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problem with start menu
"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
... [] It makes sense to group them. The Start Menu gets too long if you just let it grow with every new app. It makes sense to create new folders e.g. c:\windows\start menu\graphics c:\windows\start menu\wordpro and just move into these all LNK files for the same or similar functions; and then delete all the parent folders generated at installation for every separate app. [] Agreed - though doing it that way means the uninstall routine, should you come to try to use it, doesn't know where they are, and leaves them (but Start Menu Cleaner - or other app.s, but I like SMC as it's simple - will find and prompt for their removal). An alternative, provided the install routine allows (most, though not all, do), is: do as Don suggests and make some generic ones (I have things like netstuff, hardware, text.etc, images, ... - IIRR I also put a # or two before them, which [a] shows they're mine [b] makes them come at the top, at least in the shell I use), then when a new app. asks where to put its shortcuts, suggesting something like newapp , I just stick my one before it, thus netstuff\newapp , which then puts it as a submenu under netstuff, and uninstall knows where to find it. (If your generic names are too long to type easily, _copy_ [e. g. Ctrl-C] the suggested new name, select your generic from the list shown, type \ at its end, and paste [Ctrl-V] the new one.) If you know the new app. is only going to make one shortcut, then I'd say just override the suggested folder name with one of your existing ones - I find single-entry submenus to the start menu somewhat irritating - but YMMV! |
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