I would like to know how to obtain the path to the start menu folder on Windows and then create a shortcut to a path that might contain non-ASCII characters.

I want to create a start menu or Desktop shortcut for my Python windows installer package. I am trying to follow https://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/builtdist.html#the-postinstallation-script He...

I need to change windows taskbar in my WPF application. For that I set WindowStyle="None", which means to disable the windows taskbar, and make custom taskbar with buttons for restoring, minimizing...

I've got an issue that seems to be specific to Windows 10 with the Start menu uninstall shortcut I create in my setup. The shortcut is simply not shown. However, others shortcuts I create are shown...

I have an Ant script to compile a Java program (the one I want to distribute), create a few different executables and settings files (to run different configurations), and then launch an Inno Setup...

I'm actually wondering how you can control the icon size (or generally: which icon to use?) for a 'classic' WPF application appearing in the Windows 10 start menu as a tile shortcut. I only found ...

I noticed with the first big Windows 10 update that some desktop apps have tiles in a different color than the one I have for accent color, like Firefox, which has a dark-gray tile color: Howeve...

I'm using the excellent Inno Setup installer and I notice that some Applications (often from Microsoft) get installed with their launch icon already highly visible ('pinned?') in the start menu (in...

I am interested to know how can I do the same thing that the apllication listed below does: Start Menu Calculator I want to know how can I create an custom tab in Start Menu Search and then handle...

I have created a set of applications which are deployed using clickonce. is it possible to group them in a common start menu item? Background : I have created a series of quantitative finance rela...

This is curious, some startmenu items seems to resolve to a "friendly" name that's not contained in the actual .lnk file. For example: "c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accesso...

I recently came across an article about Windows 7's new Federated Search and Search Connectors. Basically, you provide users a small XML file (.osdx; an OpenSearch XML file) and they can then use E...

I am trying to add my program shortcut to an existing folder in the start menu shortcuts. For example All Programs -> AppNameFolder -> AppNameVersionFolder -> AppShortcut In order to achi...

I'd like to write custom providers for start menu searching, but I can't seem to find where to begin. Things I'd like to be able to do when I type in the search box on the start menu Type "thoma...