Start Menu Shortcut Program

I tested it with UAC off, and it would not run for me until I turned it on and restarted again.

Where did you save it originally when you downloaded it?

Brink said:

I tested it with UAC off, and it would not run for me until I turned it on and restarted again.

Where did you save it originally when you downloaded it?

To the Desktop ..

Strange. Let's see how Kicks does after turning on UAC and restarting.

Shawn, the Windows key and Ctrl + Esc are working. So I turned on UAC, rebootet, got "unblock", clicked it. Now, Startmenu.exe was working fine. Then I turned off UAC, Startmenu.exe still working. When I rebootet, Startmenu.exe fails as before.

As for the trick of Capt.Jack Sparrow, I did not quite understand what to do.

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An additional question: Can startmenu.exe be told by a parameter to open All Programs instead? This would be a better solution than my workaraound with a new toolbar in the taskbar (screenshot).

Kicks,

I'm happy to hear that you got it working with UAC on.


You could pin that folder to the taskbar to have that on the taskbar. You can use on of the hidden folders below.

All Users:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Only your user account:
C:\Users\(user-name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink said:

Strange. Let's see how Kicks does after turning on UAC and restarting.

Hello Shawn,

Any idea why its happening if UAC is turned off ??

Working on the issue. :)

Did we ever get this fixed? I too have UAC off, no unblock & no response other than the taskbar icon briefly turning to active.

Hello Stu,

No, UAC will still need to be turned on first to be able to unblock the shortcut for it to properly work.