"Pin to Start menu"

[Guest]

When I right click on my desk top shortcut applications, I see "pin to start
menu."

What does this mean?

Allllsssoooooo....What do the little arrows indicate on the desk top
application icons?

 

[Rock]

When I right click on my desk top shortcut applications, I see "pin to start
menu."

What does this mean?

Allllsssoooooo....What do the little arrows indicate on the desk top
application icons?

The arrow means it's a shortcut. You can remove the arrow from the
shortcut if you want using tweakui.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

 

[Plato]

Allllsssoooooo....What do the little arrows indicate on the desk top
application icons?

They mean the icon is a shortcut to the executable program file. One can
remove them.

 

[Tim Slattery]

When I right click on my desk top shortcut applications, I see "pin to start
menu."

That means the shortcut gets stuck in the upper left section of the
Start menu, so you'll see it every time you click "Start". That's
convenient if you use it a lot.

Allllsssoooooo....What do the little arrows indicate on the desk top
application icons?

They mean that you're looking at a shortcut, not an executable. A
shortcut is a very small file that points to an executable. It also
points to an icon to be displayed, and contains a directory that will
be set as the current directory when the shortcut is used to start the
application.