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MSPaint start menu icon/location
This is a tiny niggle, but niggle it is. Maybe there's no solution, but here goes...
MSPaint wasn't on my new computer by default. It's easy to get, though Microsoft being Microsoft, it's not obtained in 10 version 21H1 from control panel\programmes\etc. but is now installed from settings\apps\etc. (Sighs and curses Microsoft quietly under his breath)
After it was installed the Paint icon.link in my Start menu was located in the "accessories" Start menu folder.
Normally in such circumstances I just move the icon to the correct location in my nicely organised Start menu. In this case to a folder called "Graphics", where I have the icon.links for Paint.net Irfanview Photoshop etc etc. I like an organised Start menu because too many programmes have stupid unhelpful names that I'd never be able to remember, let alone find, if they were just left in an alphabetic list. It's also much tidier which just makes things quicker to use.
BUT. The Icon for MSPaint won't move .In fact, not only won't it move but a freshly created shortcut created from the .exe and placed in the Start menu\graphics folder doesn't appear when the Start Menu graphics folder is open. I can see it when I visit C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Graphics
But when I click on the Start menu and open my Graphics folder it isn't visible there. I've tried changing the default Icon to a custom icon. It still won't appear.
Microsoft seem to have performed some kind of software magic to make the MSPaint be only launchable from Start menu\accessories folder.
This annoys me immensely. Because a) as stated I like Start to be properly tidy and organised so that I know where to find stuff and b) Dammit it's My computer. Also c) I don't like this sleight of hand they've pulled and want to know how they did it. (Why they did it is probably never going to get an answer).
So does anyone know a way to get past this obstacle, or at least know how they did this? I don't mind a bit of registry tinkering.