Tefters Posted October 1, 2018 Posted October 1, 2018 Morning all, Windows 10 1803 AU update, fresh deployment/build over summer. No re-directed start menu. No custom start menu tiles (haven't got round to it yet). The issue I have is with plain old icons not tiles. Users here need shortcuts for everything because remembering crucial school web links is hard... So i create shortcuts on my own PC with custom ico's and deploy via an SCCM batch script, easy peasy. Depending on the browser I will either do the shortcuts direct to IE or direct to Chrome with the URL appended afterwards, basic stuff... The shortcuts simply get copied to "%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Bla Bla Bla". The shortcuts are there on the machine in the directory and work when logged in as admin and browser to the directory and launch it or simply map a drive from my machine and launch it however it does not show on the actual start menu itself. What's even more annoying is the shortcut in question at the moment is for CPOMS which was showing and working fine up until Friday when i deployed another batch script copying 6 PiXL apps icons I created for the start menu and funnily enough only 1 of them show as well for the users but they are there and do work when browsing the directory as expected. I have the C:\ share locked down so end users cant browse to the folder to check from their perspective but when I copy the shortcut to a shared drive it works for them. Checked permissions and they are all good. Checked the hidden option and it is not ticked. Anyone else had this... @Arthur - I know you are usually clued up on these things as well as I.
Arthur Posted October 1, 2018 Posted October 1, 2018 The shortcuts simply get copied to "%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Bla Bla Bla". Is "Bla Bla Bla" within the Programs subfolder? If not, that could be why they aren't appearing. %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\[b]Programs[/b]\Bla Bla Bla Have you tried copying the shortcuts/links to the other shortcuts folder? %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Tefters Posted October 1, 2018 Author Posted October 1, 2018 Yup, covered all the basics... Before I did the new PiXL icons on Friday CPOMS was showing but can't explain what is going on now...
Arthur Posted October 1, 2018 Posted October 1, 2018 can't explain what is going on now... Do you have the Remove common program groups from Start Menu GPO enabled? What type of shortcut are they (.URLs or .LNKs)?
Tefters Posted October 2, 2018 Author Posted October 2, 2018 Morning, Apologies for the delay, S4B Edge firewall issues took priority. No there is no "remove common program groups from start menu" GPO, nearest GPO to being related I have is "remove recently added list from start menu". The shortcuts are LNK files - Eg. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://englishapp.pixl.org.uk
MartinByard Posted October 2, 2018 Posted October 2, 2018 I think this might be your problem (we've had something similar in the past when it was decided that a program needed to be in the start menu twice, once each for the different faculties that wanted to use it) .... Windows 10 is awkward and won't allow duplicates in the start menu, so given that there will already be a shortcut to Chrome (for example) that is there by default, when you try to add another (linking to your website for example) then windows will decide to only display one of them. To get around this we created a powershell script that launched the program (you could do it with a batch file as well), converted it to an exe and put a shortcut to that in the start menu. 1
Arthur Posted October 2, 2018 Posted October 2, 2018 Windows 10 is awkward and won't allow duplicates in the start menu, so given that there will already be a shortcut to Chrome (for example) that is there by default, when you try to add another (linking to your website for example) then windows will decide to only display one of them. Martin is right. This is why you're not seeing the shortcuts.
Tefters Posted October 2, 2018 Author Posted October 2, 2018 Urgh... FML... Will go investigate now...
Tefters Posted October 2, 2018 Author Posted October 2, 2018 I think this might be your problem (we've had something similar in the past when it was decided that a program needed to be in the start menu twice, once each for the different faculties that wanted to use it) .... Windows 10 is awkward and won't allow duplicates in the start menu, so given that there will already be a shortcut to Chrome (for example) that is there by default, when you try to add another (linking to your website for example) then windows will decide to only display one of them. To get around this we created a powershell script that launched the program (you could do it with a batch file as well), converted it to an exe and put a shortcut to that in the start menu. Gold star for you my man, was curious as to why Chrome showed and one other though... Worked out why! Chrome goes to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" My other shortcuts go to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" https://xxxxx.net Same exe path but the extra URL after it counts as a different link and that why chrome + 1 other works, try and do any other however it see's the URL paths after the exe as the same thing hence the duplication. Grrrr
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