Pinned start menu registry windows 7

The bad Microsoft techs NEVER give more than one reply since it would involve actually reading the post and doing some research! This will give them the same tiles and settings. The trick is that the that the database files are in use when the user is logged on so you have to log them off and use another account, with administrative access, to copy or replace the Database folder.

Google search: enable windows administrator account. NOR mit Group Policies, or using import-startlayout export-startlayout, also checked the default xml. When deleting the database, and logging in, I get a start menu, that only holds 3 office apps. It will allow you to customize every aspect of the Default Profile, not just the Start Menu settings, which is what you really need to clean up the mess that is Windows Otherwise, step through what I said again carefully.

I did not mention deleting and you did not mention using a different account. You might be missing something. Sniper KO95 Xbox Ambassador. Thanks -Jim. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi, Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows Double click on C: drive.

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on August 31, Is that the way it is supposed to be? Now I find myself trying to make another unattended CD and I'm trying this tweak and it just won't take.

My start menu comes up blank every time except for default internet explorer and default outlook express. I must have somehow disabled the ability to pin to the start-menu with my nLite XP. Do you know if there's a registry tweak to re-enable it??

I created a simple how-to for our desktop staff, attached. This is mainly for setting the Pinned start menu for all users. I hope you all find it usefull, it perhaps explains things about loading hive's for those not familiar. The methods described here doesn't work on my system.

I have created a VBScript that does the job:. Have fun. I think Microsoft disabled this option to prevent any virusses to launch automaticly at startup. I like this method, since changing shortcuts is simple and works on different platforms. Didn't test this script on Vista though. Anyway I spend alot of time on it to get it to work also for subdirs. Right-Click on "Start" button, select 'Properties", select "Customize Luckily more and more people discover the InvokeVerb method to pin items to the Start Menu so it wasn't difficult to find a solution:.

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The use of ad-blocking software hurts the site. Please disable ad-blocking software or set an exception for MSFN. Pin To Start Menu - Solved. Share More sharing options Followers 0. Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2. Recommended Posts. Maelstorm Posted March 7, Posted March 7, After some research, I have figured out how to pin items to the start menu. Here's what you do. What is the location of pinned start menu and taskbar items? Is this list a registry, or a folder somewhere? Improve this question.

Noah Noah 2, 5 5 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Zombo 9, 20 20 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Cagliostro Cagliostro 1, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges. Presumably, because way bay they were trying to integrate IE directly into the shell of Windows. Active Desktop in Windows 98 was where they started going with this — Colin Mackay. It doesn't look like pinned directories are stored here.

Adding my own directory shortcuts here doesn't make those directories show up in the start menu. I had an portable app pinned for years and forgot it's location. This helped. The location for the Start Menu pinned apps was extremely useful for me as I upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10, and discovered that Windows 10 uses a completely different pinning system in the Start Menu, and all the pinned apps in the start menu were gone!

Though the pinned apps in the taskbar were safe - seems like there was no change in the pinning system there. So this helped me locate the list of apps I had pinned in Windows 7 and pin them again in the new Start Menu of Windows 7. It also prompted me to clean up this ridiculous new start menu, getting rid of loads of unnecessary tiles.

ParseName "Calculator. DoIt Next. ErikE 1 1 gold badge 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Neal Neal 8, 1 1 gold badge 27 27 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Technically that's only correct if you haven't relocated your AppData folder. Also - the link to the scripted way of adding items is VBScript - not Powerhshell - but probably could be adapted : — GodEater. The Shell object no longer returns the "Pin to Taskbar" verb. Microsoft is trying to inhibit apps from loading up the taskbar automatically.

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