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Can't pin to Start8 Menu or Drag/Drop

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Can't pin to Start8 Menu or Drag/Drop

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Just as the title states, I can neither pin items to the Start8 Menu, or drag/drop recently used applications. If I right click on anything and select Pin to Start Menu (Start8)... nothing get's pinned whatsoever. It doesn't matter if recently used items are enabled or disabled.

The only time ANYthing shows up (the "all programs" section displays fine) is if I have recently used applications enabled, but it still won't allow me to pin anything to the menu, nor will it let me drag/drop any of the recently used applications.

 

Start8 v.98 Beta 3

Windows 8 Professional RTM x64

 

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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

I hope this is a solution for others as I had the same problem.

I found many shortcuts were in fact still in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu but not showing in my Start8 Menu.

I checked the security permissions of the start menu folder and found that the system, administrators and MY_USERNAME accounts all had read only access.

I don't know what caused this, but after setting read/write etc. to Allow, everything works fine again.

 

Regards Kym H