History problems

from Stardock Forums

I'm seeing two issues.

 

1) Application shortcuts are missing/not being created in the left column of the Start menu. There are two pinned shortcuts and there is no problem with those.

Shortcuts were originally created in the left column. At some point, those present disappeared. The Configure / 'Show recently used applications' option is selected.

 

After I initially configured Start8, the only changes that I have made have been on the Style tab.

 

2) No Run history is being kept. If I use Run to run to run an app like Regedit, the next time that I use run, it is blank with no history.

 

I see that the Windows registry key for the history function is not in Win8 but adding it back makes no difference. If I use Run under Metro, it also is storing no history.

 

start8
2,075 views 2 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

The run dialog is the native one provided by the OS.  If that is not storing history then there is something wrong at an OS level.

Could you perhaps have disabled the options to save information like that from the taskbar properties (Jump lists page)?

 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes. That accounts for both issues. Nothing like self-created issues..

What I apparently wanted in the Taskbar properties is 'Store recently opened programs' selected and 'Store and display recently opened items in Jump Lists' unselected. I had both unselected.

Many thanks, Neil.

Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse