Windows 7/Windows 2008 Start Menu

By
Dallas Marks
– October 19, 2011Posted in: Odds and Ends

It seems like I have to look for this every few months and can never remember the answer I found the previous time.  Where are the shortcuts on the Windows 7/Windows 2008 Start Menu located?

All Users
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

Personal Start Menu
C:\Users\<myUserid>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Start Menu

Anyone know why Wordpad has a shortcut under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu but Notepad has a shortcut for each user under C:\Users\<myUserid>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Start Menu?

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As a business intelligence architect, developer, mentor and trainer, I help organizations across the United States harness the power of business intelligence, primarily (but not exclusively) using SAP BusinessObjects products. I prefer piano keyboards instead of computer keyboards when not blogging or tweeting about business intelligence.