Defense in depth — the Microsoft way (part 95): the (shared) “Start Menu” is dispensable  – Full Disclosure

Posted by Stefan Kanthak via Fulldisclosure on Jan 10

Hi @ll,

the following is a condensed form of
<https://skanthak.hier-im-netz.de/whispers.html#whisper3> and
<https://skanthak.hier-im-netz.de/whispers.html#whisper4>.

Windows Vista moved the shared start menu from “%ALLUSERSPROFILE%Start Menu”
to “%ProgramData%MicrosoftWindowsStart Menu”, with some shortcuts (*.lnk)
“reflected” from the (immutable) component store below %SystemRoot%WinSxS

JFTR:…
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