{"id":18443,"date":"2009-04-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/04\/27\/the-start-menu-pin-list-is-just-a-list-of-items-theres-no-magic\/"},"modified":"2009-04-27T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:00:00","slug":"the-start-menu-pin-list-is-just-a-list-of-items-theres-no-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090427-00\/?p=18443","title":{"rendered":"The Start menu pin list is just a list of items; there&#8217;s no magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Kevin Dente asks, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/pages\/407234.aspx#553256\">Is it possible to put a folder on the Start Menu Pin list and have it cascade?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> No. The last time I checked (which was back in Windows&nbsp;XP), the Start menu pin list was a list, not a menu. (Specifically, a list view in tile mode.) When you click on the icon, it launches. There is no code to say &#8220;Oh, if this flag is set, then let me draw a little menu arrow next to the item, and if the user clicks the arrow, bind to the target of this shortcut, enumerate its contents, and create a menu from it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Remember, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ryjones.org\/2005\/07\/12\/product-development\/\"> features don&#8217;t exist by default; somebody has to implement them<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Kevin Dente asks, &#8220;Is it possible to put a folder on the Start Menu Pin list and have it cascade?&#8221; No. The last time I checked (which was back in Windows&nbsp;XP), the Start menu pin list was a list, not a menu. (Specifically, a list view in tile mode.) When you click on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-18443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Commenter Kevin Dente asks, &#8220;Is it possible to put a folder on the Start Menu Pin list and have it cascade?&#8221; No. The last time I checked (which was back in Windows&nbsp;XP), the Start menu pin list was a list, not a menu. (Specifically, a list view in tile mode.) When you click on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}