Sunday, May 17, 2009

Where is the Vista Start Menu folder?

QUESTION:
I recently bought a computer with Vista installed. I like it for the most part but I'm still confused about some things that were changed. In XP, I could go to Documents and Settings, Default User, Start Menu and remove things from the start menu. I can find it in Vista. Is there still a way to do this? Thanks!
ANSWER:
Vista has changed the path for that data; it's now in the Users folder instead of Documents and Settings.
The full path is: Users \ Default \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Start Menu
If you want to modify the Start Menu for your own user account (rather than all users), there's an easy way. In the Search box on the Start menu, just type: shell:start menu

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