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Answered Manually unpin from Start Menu?

  • Friday, January 16, 2009 5:53 PM
     
     
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    Well, I discovered a slight bug. I accidentally pinned the Libraries folder to my Start Menu, and now there's no way to remove it. The only option in the context menu is "Open".

    So, does anyone know how I can get rid of it?

    Trying to drag it off the taskbar just gives me another shortcut.
    It's not in my Start Menu folder or the All Users Start Menu folder, so I can't delete it manually.
    I couldn't find it anywhere in the registry either (though maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough).

     

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  • Friday, January 16, 2009 6:58 PM
     
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     This might help you : (and searching BTW)

    Delete the key below to get rid of your start menu pins..

    Joe Shonk wrote in another thread : (And I copied and pasted a few times already :-)

    These are located in the registry under the following key:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage\

    If you delete this key, it will recreate but you will lose all your start menu pins.

    Unfortunately, everything is stored in a binary format making modifications difficult.

    Joe Shonk
    • Marked As Answer by Akame-san Friday, January 16, 2009 7:01 PM
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  • Friday, January 16, 2009 7:01 PM
     
     
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    That would explain it. I was searching the registry for "Start Menu", not "StartPage".

    And fortunately for me, I don't have anything else pinned.