Start Menu Quirk

[Andyistic]

Just try to rename "Windows Remote Assistance" to something else.
It will change it back to the original name.
Not the program name itself, but the name that appears on the Start Menu
(the link).

-- Andy

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Just try to rename "Windows Remote Assistance" to something else.
It will change it back to the original name.
Not the program name itself, but the name that appears on the Start Menu
(the link).

The whole Start Menu thing is weird in Vista. In XP I use a Control Panel
applet called StartupCPL to edit startup items. But in Vista after you move
or delete them, they reappear and sometimes double up in All Users and
Current User. Not only can I not use StartupCPL anymore, I can't get my
head around what is happening here.

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

ss.

 

[mikeyhsd]

microsoft calls it BRANDING.

(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com

Just try to rename "Windows Remote Assistance" to something else.
It will change it back to the original name.
Not the program name itself, but the name that appears on the Start Menu
(the link).

-- Andy

 

[mikeyhsd]

a lot of these things are labeled as BRANDING by microsoft.

(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com

Just try to rename "Windows Remote Assistance" to something else.
It will change it back to the original name.
Not the program name itself, but the name that appears on the Start Menu
(the link).

The whole Start Menu thing is weird in Vista. In XP I use a Control Panel
applet called StartupCPL to edit startup items. But in Vista after you move
or delete them, they reappear and sometimes double up in All Users and
Current User. Not only can I not use StartupCPL anymore, I can't get my
head around what is happening here.

http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

ss.

 

[Andyistic]

Then someone needs to come up with a DEBRANDER,
or insist that Microsoft come out with an auto-update to "fix" this issue.

-- Andy


microsoft calls it BRANDING.

(e-mail address removed)@sport.rr.com

Just try to rename "Windows Remote Assistance" to something else.
It will change it back to the original name.
Not the program name itself, but the name that appears on the Start Menu
(the link).

-- Andy

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Open the folder:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Maintenance

Edit the hidden, system file named 'desktop.ini', delete the line that
reads:

Remote Assistance.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\msra.exe,-100