Start Menu and PBW

[se5a]

XP pro - how do I get a PBW icon into the most used list on the start menu?
I have got the launcher there (it did it automaticly)
but it doesent seem to want to put a java progy there.

[Fyron]

I think it might be limited to .exe files. Just use the quick launch bar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Ruatha]

Can't you drag it and drop it above the delimeter line?

Altough I think it's easier to start it from the quicklaunch bar as Fyron stated.

[ May 21, 2004, 09:41: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[geoschmo]

Yes, I tried it and you can drag and drop a shortcut above the line. It's not in the actual "most used" section, but it's right there on the start menu. To make the shortcut you just right click on the web page in explorer and select the shortcut option. It will save it to the desktop and you can drag it from there.

[se5a]

opps, did I say PBW? I meant the RTC...
but yea.

[Fyron]

Isn't RTC an executable jar? I am not positive, but I believe that the most used programs part doesn't like java programs...

[geoschmo]

I can drag an RTC shortcut onto the start menu just fine.

[se5a]

yea, I guess above the line will have to do.

incedentaly, I turned the neural combat net image into a RTC icon if anyone wants it.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I can drag an RTC shortcut onto the start menu just fine. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, not the normal start menu, the recently used programs section of the start menu. You can not drag stuff onto that.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Originally posted by geoschmo:
I can drag an RTC shortcut onto the start menu just fine. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, not the normal start menu, the recently used programs section of the start menu. You can not drag stuff onto that. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I understand that Fyron. That was already discussed.

[Fyron]

Nobody was talking about adding links to the start menu on the parts you can manually edit. Links to anything can be added there. We were talking about the behavior of the most used programs section, which has nothing to do with dragging stuff onto the start menu.

[se5a]

fyron - your starting to sound grumpy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

hey, will a .bat go in there?
himnnn....

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Nobody was talking about adding links to the start menu on the parts you can manually edit. Links to anything can be added there. We were talking about the behavior of the most used programs section, which has nothing to do with dragging stuff onto the start menu. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wrong. You obviously didn't read the other Posts in the thread very carefully, as usual.
Originally posted by Ruatha:
Can't you drag it and drop it above the delimeter line?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> Originally posted by geoschmo:
Yes, I tried it and you can drag and drop a shortcut above the line. It's not in the actual "most used" section, but it's right there on the start menu. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">See? I understood that the most used programs section couldn't be manually altered. However, Ruatha and I were trying to present Se5a with options to do very nearly what it was that he wanted to do, even though he couldn't do exactly what he wanted to do. The area of the start menu that can me manually modified is so close to the most used programs section, and both are on the start menu.

See, unlike you were were trying to be helpful and offer suggestsions, rather then just showing off our massive knowledge of Windows operation.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by se5a:
hey, will a .bat go in there?
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Isn't is possible to turn a .bat file into a windows .exe file? I think I saw a utility that would do that once. If so you could make a batch file that would launch the jar file, turn the .bat file into an .exe and then Windows would probably stick it in the most used programs section.

EDIT: Ah, well maybe not. The utility I was thinking about was an old Dos utility. Doesn't work with Windows executable programs. If you know anything about programing it would probably be pretty easy to write and compile a simple program that calls a shortcut for the RTC jar file. But that might be more trouble then it's worth.

[ May 23, 2004, 17:00: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[se5a]

RTC doesent seem to be workign for me atm - is that part of PBW down?

[Fyron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Wrong. You obviously didn't read the other Posts in the thread very carefully, as usual.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, I do read Posts very carefully. Responding very carefully is another story... I meant, nobody in the span of these Posts:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
[QB] Isn't RTC an executable jar? I am not positive, but I believe that the most used programs part doesn't like java programs... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Nobody was talking about adding links to the start menu on the parts you can manually edit. Links to anything can be added there. We were talking about the behavior of the most used programs section, which has nothing to do with dragging stuff onto the start menu. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I was not saying that nobody in the entire thread was ever talking about that, but that nobody in the current part of the discussion was talking about it. The discussion was again about the most used programs section, not the normal part of the start menu.

See? I understood that the most used programs section couldn't be manually altered. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was not apparent from the following post:

Originally posted by geoschmo:
I can drag an RTC shortcut onto the start menu just fine. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This post was 100% redundant, as there was no need to repeat yourself when I was talking about the most used programs section.

See, unlike you were were trying to be helpful and offer suggestsions, rather then just showing off our massive knowledge of Windows operation.<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, whatever. I guess personal insults are above your duties as moderator. Please moderate your Posts down.

My Posts were quite helpful, as they were answering se5a's questions.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by se5a:
RTC doesent seem to be workign for me atm - is that part of PBW down? <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was down, but it's working now.