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Custom search tab in Windows start menu search with C#

I am interested to know how can I do the same thing that the apllication listed below does: Start Menu Calculator I want to know how can I create an custom tab in Start Menu Search and then handle it with my WPF application. It should only be…
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How to make full screen mode, without covering the taskbar using :wpf c#

I need to change windows taskbar in my WPF application. For that I set WindowStyle="None", which means to disable the windows taskbar, and make custom taskbar with buttons for restoring, minimizing and closing the application. Now my problem is if…
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Custom source for Windows 7 Start Menu Search

I recently came across an article about Windows 7's new Federated Search and Search Connectors. Basically, you provide users a small XML file (.osdx; an OpenSearch XML file) and they can then use Explorer to search whatever you've got. These…
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How to create a shortcut in startmenu using setuptools windows installer

I want to create a start menu or Desktop shortcut for my Python windows installer package. I am trying to follow https://docs.python.org/3.4/distutils/builtdist.html#the-postinstallation-script Here is my script; import sys from os.path import…
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Use Wix installer to add shortcut to subfolder in startmenu programs

I am trying to add my program shortcut to an existing folder in the start menu shortcuts. For example All Programs -> AppNameFolder -> AppNameVersionFolder -> AppShortcut In order to achieve this I added the extra lines:
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Is it possible to 'Pin to start menu' using Inno Setup?

I'm using the excellent Inno Setup installer and I notice that some Applications (often from Microsoft) get installed with their launch icon already highly visible ('pinned?') in the start menu (in Windows 7). Am I totally reliant on the…
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Inno Setup Start menu uninstall shortcut is not shown on Windows 10

I've got an issue that seems to be specific to Windows 10 with the Start menu uninstall shortcut I create in my setup. The shortcut is simply not shown. However, others shortcuts I create are shown as well... Here is the value for…
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Color tiles in Windows 10 desktop apps

I noticed with the first big Windows 10 update that some desktop apps have tiles in a different color than the one I have for accent color, like Firefox, which has a dark-gray tile color: However, not all apps have this, and use the default accent…
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Windows 10 / 8 start menu tile icon size for classic WPF desktop applications

I'm actually wondering how you can control the icon size (or generally: which icon to use?) for a 'classic' WPF application appearing in the Windows 10 start menu as a tile shortcut. I only found very few posts like this one on SO, but the only…
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How can I group my applications in start menu deployed by clickOnce?

I have created a set of applications which are deployed using clickonce. is it possible to group them in a common start menu item? Background : I have created a series of quantitative finance related calculators in my website, which are deployed…
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How to control what is shown in Windows 10 "recently added" programs list?

The Windows 10 start menu will show recently added programs after you run an installer. In my case, the installer installs more than one program to Start Menu. For some reason it is picking one of them and showing it as "recently added", but I'd…
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How to 'Refresh' the Vista start menu programmatically

I am working on a piece of code that removes an extra folder we have in the user's start menu. I start by removing all of the shortcuts it contains, and then remove the folder itself. After this is done, I can confirm that the shortcuts have been…
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powershell create apps group in metroUI

I need to create folder in metroUI in separate group. I can do this manually like here, but I have to do this with powershell. Anyone know how to do this?
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Add a check box to not add the start menu icons

So this is probably really simple, and I've been looking and looking for an example, but can't seem to find one. I just need to add a check box to select the option NOT to create a start menu shortcut to the screen where it says, "Select Start Menu…
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How to "refresh" Windows 7 start menu from NSIS installer?

I have an installer (NSIS) that creates shortcuts in start menu. When I remove the program uninstall removes the folder from: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ unfortunately the folder is still in start…
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