Mark Poyser
25th November 2005 04:45 UTC

how to order ShortCut(s) in Start Menu?
I CreateDirectory in the Start Menu ($SMPROGRAMS) and then have several CreateShortCut to tuck in there. But I'd like to have it so that a particular short cut is at the top when the set "flys out" to the right.

I can't figure out how to do that. Reordering the CreateShortCut lines doesn't seem to make a difference. The ordering doesn't seem to be alphabetical or file-date sensitive.

Any ideas how to get a particular short cut to be the top one? (this is for convenience only, but would be nice to have)

kichik
25th November 2005 11:01 UTC

You can't set the icons order. That's for the end-user to decide. However, you can highlight one shortcut on Windows XP as a new program. See the following Wiki page for more information:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Start_Menu_Highlight

Mark Poyser
27th November 2005 11:24 UTC

Thanks! I have managed to get the ordering as I like it - for now - due to total randomness. As I've been making changes to the modules and recompiling, the right ordering came about (on XP, 2000, 98 OS).

But I'll definitely try the "XP option" as it were.