Pinning a shortcut to script to the Windows 8.1 Start screen
Posted: 18 Mar 2015, 19:51
I would like to pin a shortcut to an AHK script to the Start screen in Windows 8.1 (the screen that first comes up with the Win key, not the Apps sub-screen.)
I found one thread about this on the old forum at http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/1 ... rt-screen/ but the solution -- to put a shortcut to the script in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu -- doesn't work. Windows says it can't create a shortcut there, and asks if I want to put it on the desktop.
Right clicking the script doesn't give me a Pin to Start option, nor does right clicking an existing shortcut that's already on the desktop.
I can copy the script itself to the folder, but that doesn't suit my purposes -- the script looks in a subfolder where it's located and calls other scripts, and I want to keep all of that where it is, so it's got to be a shortcut.
Thanks.
I found one thread about this on the old forum at http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/1 ... rt-screen/ but the solution -- to put a shortcut to the script in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu -- doesn't work. Windows says it can't create a shortcut there, and asks if I want to put it on the desktop.
Right clicking the script doesn't give me a Pin to Start option, nor does right clicking an existing shortcut that's already on the desktop.
I can copy the script itself to the folder, but that doesn't suit my purposes -- the script looks in a subfolder where it's located and calls other scripts, and I want to keep all of that where it is, so it's got to be a shortcut.
Thanks.