What controls pinning programs to the Start Menu in XP?

[LowFatCannibal]

I've recently sorted myself a perfectly grand, lovely, small, low on resources copy of Windows using nLite.

The only problem I've encountered is that I can't pin items to the start menu in the usual fashion (IE: Where your Internet & Email application shortcuts are). When I drag and drop, they don't appear, and I can't use "Pin to Start Menu" either.

What controls this feature? I quite liked having all of my programs at hand.

[LowFatCannibal]

No answer?

[gunsmokingman]

Try this script to see if it works. I have it set to pin notepad.exe to the start menu.

Save as PinToStartMenu.vbs

Dim Act, Folder, FolderItem, Shell, Wd32
 Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
 Wd32 = Act.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%Windir%\System32")
 Set Shell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
 Set Folder = Shell.Namespace(Wd32)
 Set FolderItem = Folder.ParseName("notepad.exe")
  FolderItem.InvokeVerb("P&in to Start Menu")

Also read this Link for more information.

Edited February 28, 2007 by gunsmokingman

[LowFatCannibal]

I know that script. It doesn't work.

I'm going to recompile a new nLite install.

[DL.]

Take a look at this thread.