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valinet / ExplorerPatcher

This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
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Windows 10 Start Pinning #2752

Open Erosion139 opened 7 months ago

Erosion139 commented 7 months ago

I had a little trouble getting certain things to pin to the start menu. Specifically with blender, its a shortcut in the Start Menu>Programs>Blender folder.

Whenever I try to add this shortcut to the start menu while it is under that folder structure it will not pin itself to the start menu. However, dragging that same shortcut to the desktop allows me to pin it to the start menu. Is there some kind of permission issue going on here? Or is something else happening... It doesn't seem to be a permission issue because I can create a new folder, call it random, inside that same folder with the other shortcuts and it will pin just fine. I am trying to figure out what the commonality is between the files that cannot be pinned.

Moving the shortcut back to the start menu folder results in the same thing, no pin..

All the pinning was done through the file explorer and not the windows search function.

pyrates999 commented 7 months ago

Please post windows version and build. You can find this by running winver. Please post explorer patcher version.

Please include what settings you changed in explorer patcher properties application. These should be screen shots.

Please include any other software you have installed that modifies the UI of windows.

Amrsatrio commented 7 months ago
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So right clicking any of these and clicking Pin to Start doesn't work? It works fine for me. 22621.3007.

Erosion139 commented 7 months ago

Please post windows version and build. You can find this by running winver. Please post explorer patcher version.

Please include what settings you changed in explorer patcher properties application. These should be screen shots.

Please include any other software you have installed that modifies the UI of windows.

Win11 23H2 22631.3085 EP 22621.2861.62.2 image image image image image (switcher is default 11) image image

The only other UI change I made to windows is removing the compressed context menu (it opens with all options every time)

Erosion139 commented 7 months ago
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So right clicking any of these and clicking Pin to Start doesn't work? It works fine for me. 22621.3007.

I havent been able to use that menu to pin anything as it doesnt show up in that list, I am trying to do it like this image

pyrates999 commented 7 months ago

Since you installed a preview update, try installing a pre-release version of EP: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/tag/22621.2861.62.2_8c1fc0e

In the settings app, untick "Get the latest updates as soon as available" so that preview updates are not automatically installed.

All preview updates are then shown as download and install and are never automatically installed if you have the above unticked.

Preview updates are also not fully tested by Microsoft and thus could have bugs.

kinggreedy commented 7 months ago

I have the same problem and I think I figured it out.

Workarounds:

Freedbot commented 5 months ago

I was just running into a similar issue with an xlaunch linux remote desktop shortcut. I noticed the shortcut is for something that isn't a folder or ".exe" file. So I tried the dumbest solution possible... I renamed the ".xlaunch" file extension to ".exe", and edited the shortcut target to also be ".exe". I had to briefly rename the actual file the shortcut applied to or the shortcut would error when I tried to apply the target change. I guess it probably would have also worked if I just made the shortcut target any valid ".exe" instead. Anyway, that let me use the "pin to start" context menu and then I just opened the file location of the added pin and changed it's target back to ".xlaunch". I think we just need a way to have more accepted files/file types for the "pin to start" context menu.