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Copper Contributor

Jul 25, 2017

Start Menu Documentation

I'd love to see some offical documentation on some of processes going on behind the Windows 10 Start menu. Some of it isnt very intuitive and I've never seen it written down. For exmaple: If a shot...

Jack Siebert

Copper Contributor

Jul 25, 2017

A specific case where more information on those would be useful is that we currently have some internal web applications that require Internet Explorer for various reasons so we do need direct users to it at times. The search functionality works great but many users are not used to using it and cannot find IE.

Dani Halfin

Microsoft

Jul 25, 2017

Usually, people use start layout customization to pin the right shortcuts to the taskbar or to start (assuming we're talking about Windows 10).

Alternativelly, you can probably expose these shortcuts to desktop and use GPP to distribute shortcuts to relevant users.

Will the above work in your case? (We have documentation for that)

Jack Siebert
Copper Contributor
Jul 25, 2017
Those options all work, but it's nice to be able to give users multiple options. It's a shame that something that used to be simple has now become arcane and appears to no longer be a viable customization option.
- Dani Halfin
  Microsoft
  Jul 25, 2017
  What have they used previously that works for them?
  
  Btw, you can pin websites to taskbar with Edge - if your websites support it
  - Jack Siebert
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 25, 2017
    On Windows 7 we've arranged shortcuts and folders in the start menu. We've got 300+ applications so pinned items or desktop shortcuts aren't great options. It's not impossible to achieve this now either, the issue is just that there are a number of unwritten rules on how things are displayed so it's a lot of trial and error.