Slightly OT: How do I access c:\Users\Current user\Start menu?

Windows builds your Start menu from two locations. One folder contains system-wide folders and shortcuts that appear on the Start menu of whatever user is logged in. There?s also a user-specific folder that contains shortcuts and folders displayed only for the currently logged in user.

Global Start Menu for all users is at

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

User is at

C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

unless you've moved your user profiles somewhere else

For an individual item on the start menu, right click, select More... then Open File Location.

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Many thanks I am now a little wiser.

Right click on the shortcut Select properties and it should show the path.

Many of the built-in shortcuts don't show a path now. I think they use a registry entry somehow. A right pain when you want to add your own shortcuts and you can't just copy them from the start button.

Since they moved the AllUsers stuff into ProgramData it always takes me a while to remember where it is - and it's not helped that ProgramData is set to 'hidden' by default.

jgh

Do you have an icon with the current user name on it? If you do then one of the sub folders will no doubt have it, but if its anything like win7 itself, the actual location will be in one of the program files folders, or in the main windows folder. Depends whether you elected to hide system files or not, I never do cos by the time I need to find a file I forgot how to unhide them again!

Brian