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Prevent programs from putting links in start menu
Since Windows 95 I have a nicely arranged start menu where I keep my stuff in order: I created a few folders like "office", "games", "tools" and moved all the start menu entries into the appropriate folder. I think it's much easier this way to find a program you need, compared to an overcrowded start menu where all links are on the same level.
This worked well for more than 15 years. However, recently applications like Evernote, Google Music/Chrome/Drive, Wunderlist and others have come up, that include an auto-update functionality which always restores their links in the start menu - on the root level! They don't realize that the links are already in the start menu (in a subfolder), and re-create them on the root level. So I have to keep up and delete them all the time, which is very annoying.
Does anyone have the same problem and/or know about a solution?