Nice Shortcut in Start Menu

[Incroyable HULK]

Hello all,

I am wondering if it is possible to create some nice shortcuts like the Internet Explorer and Email Program in the Start Menu like this:

The thing I like is the SUBTITLE (in light blue)

I could really use something like that for a link to our Corporate Intranet, FTP Server, Etc.

I was able to pin my own shortcut to the start menu (the Virtual Drive stuff) and I have some VBScript for this part but the Subtitle seems to be somewhere in the registry...

any help appreciated!

Edited March 7, 2006 by Incroyable HULK

[QKnet]

yeah, I've been looking too for how to automatically pin the program to startmenu.

Can anyone help?

[gunsmokingman]

Here a vbs script that pin calculator to the start menu

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace("C:\Windows\System32")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("calc.exe")

objFolderItem.InvokeVerb("P&in to Start Menu")

Here is a link to Hey, Scripting Guy!, for more information about this.

[Incroyable HULK]

yep, that's the code I already had...

I was more interested in the Subtitle part

[Bezalel]

This script worked for me:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(WshShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersStartMenu")&"\Calulator.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "%SystemRoot%\system32\calc.exe"
oShellLink.Description = "Performs basic arithmetic tasks with an on-screen calculator."
oShellLink.Save

The script from The Scripting Guys manipulates the Application object and not the shortcut being created. My script works on the shortcut itself.

[Djé]

The problem is that the 2 first one are special explorer elements. Reshack Explorer.exe and you'll find their info tips together with other (search, help, etc.) menu items tips in String Table #438 while the element titles (white text: Internet, Courrrier électronique) themselves are ALONE in the String Table #440.

The light blue texts (the subtitles) are just the application names.

So it looks like Explorer has a special feature for the 2 first ones but not for other.

Edited March 8, 2006 by Djé

[gunsmokingman]

The script is to pin something to the startmenu not create a shortcuts. To make shortcuts uses a different object.

CreateObject("Shell.Application") this is different then this CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

[Incroyable HULK]

There is some value in the registry under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache

but I am not sure if we can use it...

[Djé]

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache

some harsh googling about that key eventually led me to that page which looks like a good entry point (more links provided inside it) to understand what it is...

...But it does not look related to your quest

[Djé]

according to this thread the registry key connected to that part of the start menu is:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage]

You may want to dig in the "Favorites" value, but with no guarranty.