thanks -
however what you sent me is if I were using the "classic" start menu on
VISTA!
what i want to know is if i can somehow copy the shortcuts that are pinned
to the "vista" style menu(not classic) and make them available to all users
who sign on to this computer.

Ed

"Dave Seven" <notfor@email.invalid> wrote in message
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> Eddie Walker wrote:
>> no -
>> I mean If I want to use the Windows Vista Start Menu instead of the
>> classic menu.
>> how can I make sure that when a different user signs in and click the
>> start menu they will see the same items that I "pinned to the startmenu"
>>
>> If I use the Classic menu I can just drag short cuts to the start menu
>> folder and they would show up in the list..
>>
>> does that make sense?
>>
>
> Right click the start button and click on 'Open All Users', right click
> the start button again and click on 'Open'. Copy or cut and paste the
> shortcuts from 'Open' to 'Open All Users'. A trick I used to use in XP to
> make sure every app/game I installed put the shortcuts into all users was
> to just delete everything for local users in the start menu. After you do
> that the apps you install won't see the local users start menu so they
> automatically installed to All Users only. I tried to do the same on Vista
> but it keeps putting back the default folders 'Programs', 'Administrative
> Tools' and "Startup' so it doesn't work on Vista. Just do as I said above
> though to move local user start menu items to be available to all users.
> Some apps give you a choice where to install to, some default to local
> user and some default to all users. Of course the correct way would be to
> give the user the choice when installing but some still use the old pre-XP
> way of doing installs. Goddamn luddites.