Vista Start Menu Handling of Special Office Shortcuts

I have the exact same problem on one of my machine. This really has nothing
to do with Office, it's affecting all so called managed shortcuts (the ones
that do not have a path to a file in their target field, but an application
name like "Microsoft Office Professional 2007". Even the ones I've created
myself (with Visual Studio) don't work. I have no idea how to track this
problem down.

i have the same problem. funny thing to add: if you drag the not working
link to the desktop it works when clicked. i didn't fiddle with UAC. it
worked and then it didn't. (i have no clue if there was an update,
since i don't know when the problem really started.)


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Ramesh, Thank you for the link to the ShellExView tool. I had the same issue,
pinned Office applications on the Start Menu that would not start. This tool
allowed me to easily isolate and identify Yosemite Filekeeper as the
offending application.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Try "Method 2" here:
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
> Ignore the article title/description.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "Jim B" <Jim B@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6043EF5E-B1BC-4EA1-AB17-493EE5031FCE@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "Mark Lindell" wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to let you know that I am having the same problem on one of my
> > work machine. I too have not had the time to dive into it as it seems so
> > minor. I'm not sure when it started happening but I also have Office 2007
> > with Visio and One Note installed.
> >
> > I think this is a real issue as some people have no clue how to create
> > shortcuts as you did and add them to the start menu. The newbie who installs
> > this stuff out of the box is going to be stumped!
> >
> > I may look at this more when I get a chance. Too busy with .NET development
> > right now. Cheers.
> >
> > Mark Lindell
> >
> > "jimmuh" wrote:
> >
> > > I've posted about this issue under Office General Questions, but we haven't
> > > got very far with it. Location of that discussion --
> > >
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xp=&sloc=en-us
> > >
> > > I'll restate as briefly as possible:
> > >
> > > Systems are running Vista Business, Office Professional 2007, Office Visio
> > > Professional 2007, Office OneNote 2007 -- all RTM. Complete install was used
> > > for each of the Office applications.
> > >
> > > The Office shortcuts produced by the installation process in the Start Menu
> > > work fine when selected by mouse or by arrow keys. The do NOT work when
> > > selected with the Start Menu search function. It gets weirder. If I pin any
> > > of these shortcuts to the Start Menu's top level, they don't function at all,
> > > regardless of how they are selected. Same for placing them in the Quick
> > > Launch toolbar. Drag them from their non-functioning position on the Start
> > > Menu or in Quick Launch to the Desktop, and they work. All user accounts
> > > behave the same. I have seen this now on five systems. I have not seen the
> > > shortcuts behave properly (or in a manner that I would deem to be proper,
> > > anyway) on a single machine with this combination of software.
> > >
> > > Systems are configured very much alike -- using renamed primary accounts,
> > > Ctrl-Alt-Del required to log in, not showing last logged user. Nothing fancy.
> > >
> > > Am I doing something wrong / dumb? Is there a fix for this? A hidden
> > > setting? An obvious setting? Folks in the Office discussion area don't seem
> > > to be coming up with anything. I'm most CERTAINLY not coming up with
> > > anything. Have tried Office diagnostics / repair - nothing. Have tried a
> > > removal then reinstallation of the applications on one system - same result.
> > > If I'm doing something dumb, at least I'm being consistent about it.
> > >
> > > :\
>
> OK, It's been quite some time since this post was originally made, but I'd
> like to chalk up another occurrence of this problem. I have the Office 2007
> Pro OEM version installed and had no issues with the pin menu for a good 8
> months on my Vista Pro machine. I am only guessing, but it appears my Office
> Apps stopped working from the pin menu when I had switched off UAC option to
> install an app and then re-enabled it. I have tried created shortcuts of the
> apps to the desktop and then pin these shortcuts to the start menu and this
> didn't solve anything. The original links in teh Start menu->All Programs to
> the office applications appear to work. I'm hoping SP1 fixes these issues
>

Excellent! Thanks for the update, David.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"DavidG" <DavidG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9F081865-FC79-418E-B943-CB794B16FF24@microsoft.com...
Ramesh, Thank you for the link to the ShellExView tool. I had the same issue,
pinned Office applications on the Start Menu that would not start. This tool
allowed me to easily isolate and identify Yosemite Filekeeper as the
offending application.

"Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Try "Method 2" here:
> http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm
> Ignore the article title/description.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
> Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com
>
>
> "Jim B" <Jim B@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6043EF5E-B1BC-4EA1-AB17-493EE5031FCE@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "Mark Lindell" wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to let you know that I am having the same problem on one of my
> > work machine. I too have not had the time to dive into it as it seems so
> > minor. I'm not sure when it started happening but I also have Office 2007
> > with Visio and One Note installed.
> >
> > I think this is a real issue as some people have no clue how to create
> > shortcuts as you did and add them to the start menu. The newbie who installs
> > this stuff out of the box is going to be stumped!
> >
> > I may look at this more when I get a chance. Too busy with .NET development
> > right now. Cheers.
> >
> > Mark Lindell
> >
> > "jimmuh" wrote:
> >
> > > I've posted about this issue under Office General Questions, but we haven't
> > > got very far with it. Location of that discussion --
> > >
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xp=&sloc=en-us
> > >
> > > I'll restate as briefly as possible:
> > >
> > > Systems are running Vista Business, Office Professional 2007, Office Visio
> > > Professional 2007, Office OneNote 2007 -- all RTM. Complete install was used
> > > for each of the Office applications.
> > >
> > > The Office shortcuts produced by the installation process in the Start Menu
> > > work fine when selected by mouse or by arrow keys. The do NOT work when
> > > selected with the Start Menu search function. It gets weirder. If I pin any
> > > of these shortcuts to the Start Menu's top level, they don't function at all,
> > > regardless of how they are selected. Same for placing them in the Quick
> > > Launch toolbar. Drag them from their non-functioning position on the Start
> > > Menu or in Quick Launch to the Desktop, and they work. All user accounts
> > > behave the same. I have seen this now on five systems. I have not seen the
> > > shortcuts behave properly (or in a manner that I would deem to be proper,
> > > anyway) on a single machine with this combination of software.
> > >
> > > Systems are configured very much alike -- using renamed primary accounts,
> > > Ctrl-Alt-Del required to log in, not showing last logged user. Nothing fancy.
> > >
> > > Am I doing something wrong / dumb? Is there a fix for this? A hidden
> > > setting? An obvious setting? Folks in the Office discussion area don't seem
> > > to be coming up with anything. I'm most CERTAINLY not coming up with
> > > anything. Have tried Office diagnostics / repair - nothing. Have tried a
> > > removal then reinstallation of the applications on one system - same result.
> > > If I'm doing something dumb, at least I'm being consistent about it.
> > >
> > > :\
>
> OK, It's been quite some time since this post was originally made, but I'd
> like to chalk up another occurrence of this problem. I have the Office 2007
> Pro OEM version installed and had no issues with the pin menu for a good 8
> months on my Vista Pro machine. I am only guessing, but it appears my Office
> Apps stopped working from the pin menu when I had switched off UAC option to
> install an app and then re-enabled it. I have tried created shortcuts of the
> apps to the desktop and then pin these shortcuts to the start menu and this
> didn't solve anything. The original links in teh Start menu->All Programs to
> the office applications appear to work. I'm hoping SP1 fixes these issues
>