If I Unpin "Windows 8 Menu" Is There A Way To Get It Back?

I think it is really cool having the Windows 8 Menu at the top of the Start8 menu.

But I have noticed that it can be unpinned.

If I unpin it, how do I get it back?

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It's actually a shortcut to:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start8\Start8.exe" Metro

where C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start8 is wherever you have Start8 installed, and the icon is set to the second icon in Start8.exe

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Yes, I have already noticed that.

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So how do we get it back on the Start8 menu? I can't seem to be able to pin Start8.exe on the menu. Any help would be appreciated

Reply #4 Top

create a shortcut to the path above in your document directory and pin it to the Start8 menu

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Pinned the shortcut to my Start8 menu, but once clicked all it does is minimize the Start8 menu and return to whichever program I was in before. Tried Start8_64.exe as well as I'm running 64bit windows, but to no avail. I reinstalled Start8 it but the shortcut is still gone

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@ naivedark

I get a different result. 

If the Windows 8 (Metro) Menu shortcut is unpinned from the "Start menu (Start8)", to get it back I just RMB clicked on the Desktop and created a New Shortcut pasting in the following for the location of the item

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start8\Start8.exe" Metro

and then clicked Next and I gave it the following name

Windows 8 (Metro) Menu

then clicked on the Finish button. (And I moved the newly created shortcut from the Desktop to another folder location.) I then RMB clicked on the newly created Windows 8 (Metro) Menu shortcut and clicked on "Pin to Start menu (Start8)"; and if wanting to change the icon just RMB click on the shortcut, click on Change Icon, select the icon you want and click on OK.

However when I did this all worked as expected (i.e. as it did before my unpinning it). I wonder why it behaves differently on yours. . . .

regards,

Laurence

 

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Quoting naivedark, reply 6
Pinned the shortcut to my Start8 menu, but once clicked all it does is minimize the Start8 menu and return to whichever program I was in before. Tried Start8_64.exe as well as I'm running 64bit windows, but to no avail. I reinstalled Start8 it but the shortcut is still gone
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If you delete the SetupLnk value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8 you should find the shortcut is added back for you on your next login.

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Quoting Neil, reply 8

If you delete the SetupLnk value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Start8\Start8.ini\Start8 you should find the shortcut is added back for you on your next login.
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Thanks a lot, this worked wonders. And everybody else for your input