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Windows 10 Start Menu Custom Folders and Shortcut Aggregation #9

Open utterances-bot opened 2 years ago

utterances-bot commented 2 years ago

Windows 10 Start Menu Custom Folders and Shortcut Aggregation

Diving into shortcut aggregation and indexing in the Modern Start Menu

https://jkindon.com/windows-10-start-menu-custom-folders-and-shortcut-aggregation/

HetDerwel commented 2 years ago

Although these are simply 'annoyances', what I don't get is WHY they changed this stuff anyway? The old style Start Menu from Windows 7 worked perfectly fine and was easily configurable. For instance, I can't get the Windows 10 Start Menu to honour containing folders of shortcuts!!! That is mental. For most programs, I have the executable and the uninstall executable each contained in their own folder. What does Windows 10 do with this??? Yup, it pull out the shortcuts from each folder and displays them as a hugely long list. In fact, I may resort to using a tool to replace the Start Menu, one that actually RESPECTS the folder structure of the start menu and not does what it pleases. You point out something very interesting... What if you want TWO shortcuts to the same executable? That's right... In Windows 10 you can't do it because it enumerates the pointed to executable and only displays one shortcut. Okay, so what happens if you want to use the same executable, but provide different startup switches? Does this work? WHY MICROSOFT, WHY??? It worked perfectly well the way you had it and now you've just arsed it all up.