{"id":971,"date":"2012-02-15T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=971"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:34:05","slug":"windows-7-start-menu-shortcuts-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2012\/02\/windows-7-start-menu-shortcuts-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Start Menu Shortcuts Location??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Arrrhhh!<\/span> Why did Microsoft do with the Windows 7 start menu stored\/saved shortcuts location?<\/p>\n<p>What ever happened to just dumping it in the C:\\Users\\Public\\Start Menu?? &#8211; I&#8217;m sure some <a title=\"Boffin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=boffin\" target=\"_blank\">boffin<\/a> will say there was a good reason behind this? You can find the locations here:<\/p>\n<p><strong>User Start Menu Items:<\/strong> (I&#8217;ve listed the combination of getting to this)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>c:\\users\\%username%\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/li>\n<li>%userprofile%\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/li>\n<li>%appdata%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Share Start Menu Items:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/li>\n<li>%programdata%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Local, Roaming &amp; LocalLow Folders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Local: <\/strong>Local folder contains many subfolders . It mainly contains folders related to installed programs. Also there is a folder of Microsoft where you can find history of Windows activities. There is a temp folder which stores all the temporary files. IE temporary files are stored under temporary internet files under Windows folder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roaming: <\/strong>Windows computer makes a roaming profile which is stored on a network server. All the data available to roaming profile can be accessed via roaming folder. Type <em>%appdata% <\/em>in the start menu search box to access the roaming folder. You can find many programs folders inside Roaming. Go to Microsoft \u2013&gt; Windows and you can access many folders such as Libraries, network shortcuts, printer shortcuts, recent items, send to, start menu, templates, themes, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LocalLow <\/strong>It is mainly for IE, Java and Adobe protected mode data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrrhhh! Why did Microsoft do with the Windows 7 start menu stored\/saved shortcuts location? What ever happened to just dumping it in the C:\\Users\\Public\\Start Menu?? &#8211; I&#8217;m sure some boffin will say there was a good reason behind this? You can find the locations here: User Start Menu Items: (I&#8217;ve listed the combination of getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-fF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}