Can you pin an url in the vista start menu?
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I've tried and can't find a way to do this, nothing in the help, so far nothing on line or my search terms are too clouded by other stuff unrelated.
Step 1) Create the "URL shortcut" on your desktop. You can do this in IE by right-clicking on a page and selecting "Create Shortcut". In Firefox, drag the address icon and drop it on the desktop. Or create a text file with the following format, and name it SOMETHING.URL:
[InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.codeproject.comStep 2) Drag the newly-created "URL shortcut" on to Start Icon. The URL will now be "pinned" to the start menu. (Hopefully this is what you were looking for.) -
Step 1) Create the "URL shortcut" on your desktop. You can do this in IE by right-clicking on a page and selecting "Create Shortcut". In Firefox, drag the address icon and drop it on the desktop. Or create a text file with the following format, and name it SOMETHING.URL:
[InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.codeproject.comStep 2) Drag the newly-created "URL shortcut" on to Start Icon. The URL will now be "pinned" to the start menu. (Hopefully this is what you were looking for.)Hello, thank you that's exactly what I'm trying to do, however I've tried that and if you add a step 3 and delete the icon from the desktop it then hoses the shortcut in the start menu. I want to only have the shortcut in the start menu and keep the desktop clean. I should have mentioned I tried that and the results, sorry about that.
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I've tried and can't find a way to do this, nothing in the help, so far nothing on line or my search terms are too clouded by other stuff unrelated.
AFAICT only EXEs can be pinned, sorry. (And MS purposely doesn't expose an API for the pin list, so pinning something else programmatically is out too.)
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