# Windows Start Menu Links

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 16, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481 "2012-05-16T16:55:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ccornett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@ccornett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ccornett)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481/1 "2012-05-16T16:55:11Z")

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It appears that when you run an Ignition project in Windows, you get an icon in the Start Menu and listed in the “Add/Remove Software” list. Two questions:

1. Is there any way to control/customize where exactly the start menu item is located? Instead of having a folder with the project name & an icon with the project name, is there a way to have it show up in “Ignition/Project Name” or something like that?

2. Also, how do you remove old projects? If I try to remove them from the “Add/Remove Software” nothing happens. So I end up with a lot of old/inactive projects littering my software list with no way to remove them.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![ccornett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@ccornett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ccornett)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481/2 "2012-05-16T17:02:45Z")

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I actually just noticed that you can remove the programs through the Java Control Panel, but still how do you customize where they show up when installed?

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481/3 "2012-05-16T18:38:23Z")

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All of that is handled by Java. I don’t think you have much control over that. It puts a shortcut on your desktop and in your program folders.

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**Author:** ![bryan\_cook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@bryan\_cook](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bryan_cook)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481/4 "2012-05-16T19:50:19Z")

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I know there’s a ‘Shortcut Creation’ option in the Java Control Panel’s ‘Advanced’ tab, not sure if it’ll help …  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/1/17e86cdac5bff2a194b46efc09f51756b6e16509.png)

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**Author:** ![chi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/0ea827/32.png) [@chi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/chi)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481/5 "2012-05-17T09:50:55Z")

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It would be really nice to have a custom Start Menu folder. Shouldn’t be so hard to implement as Ignition already sets some Java WebStart properties, like icon or vendor name. Currently i see the following in the jnlp:

```auto
    <icon href="system/images/test_logo.png"/>
    <shortcut online="true">
      <desktop/>
      <menu/>
    </shortcut>
```

Maybe we can have an additional setting in the java web start properties for the menu subfolder:

```auto
    <shortcut online="true">
      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="PutSubfolderNameHere"/>
    </shortcut>
```

As a little drawback this may cause Java WebStart to ask for a confirmation when default settings are used.

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**Author:** ![ccornett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@ccornett](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ccornett)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/windows-start-menu-links/4481/6 "2012-05-17T15:14:26Z")

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Thanks guys,

Its not a huge deal, but I can use all the help I can get to stay organized.

I do like Chi’s suggestion. Even if its not customizable, it’d be nice to have them grouped together in some way. Although customizable is always better… 🙂