How do I see a program copied to the "Start Menu"?

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It should show up automatically if you are placing it under the Start Menu
folder; should be in the top group with your shared apps. You may wish to
try placing it in the All Users Start Menu folder or you can try placing it
in the Programs folder underneath the Start Menu folder.
 
I keep copying a program from the desktop to a folder on the Start Menu.
But I go back and look at it and it is not there. I look at the reqisite
directory in "C:\Documents and Settings\Johansen\Start Menu" and there it
is. How do I show it on the Start Menu?

Don J

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Don said:
I keep copying a program from the desktop to a folder on the Start Menu.
But I go back and look at it and it is not there. I look at the reqisite
directory in "C:\Documents and Settings\Johansen\Start Menu" and there it
is. How do I show it on the Start Menu?

Don J
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AFAIK the idea is not to move or copy the program (the executable) to
the start menu but to establish a link to the program which is installed
in a more traditional location such as C:\Program Files\Your Program
Here. While this _may_ be what you are actually doing I find it
impossible to determine from your post. I usually do this by
alt-dragging from the executable file to the desired location in the
start menu and I've never seen it fail yet.
 
I DID alt-drag the program to a folder on the Start Menu. The folder was a
renamed version of a Windows XP folder, I don't remember which, so the
folder may have had special properties that prevented it from being used for
anything else. I've changed the renamed folder. This one seems to work.

Actually the basic Problem is that I couldn't create a folder from scratch
on the Start Menu. Creating a folder on the desktop and dragging it to the
Start Menu didn't work either, because depositing a shortcut in the folder
seemed to make the deleted folder reappear on the desktop. If I deposited
the shortcut before deleting the folder on the desktop, deleting the folder
on the desktop would not affect the appearance of the folder on the Start
Menu but when you looked inside the folder on the Start Menu the shortcut to
the program was no longer there.

This leaves us with the question of how do you create a new folder on the
desktop? The best solution that I have come up with so far is that you
should reuse a pre-existing folder that you no longer need for its original
purpose. You do however run into problems when you try to rename certain
pre-existing folders as described above.

Don J
 
Nothing prevents you from creating a Folder on the desktop and nothing
prevent you from creating a new program folder on the start menu.

r-click the Start button, Explore All Users, double click Programs
folder, then click File, New, Folder, and name it.
 
Thank you!

Don J

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