Add (pin) shortcut to Start menu (or taskbar)

[Redsandro]

This will pin items to the Start menu. This is developed and tested on Windows 8.

I added support to pin items to the Taskbar (-taskbar true) instead of Start Menu, because this functionality is outdated here:
https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/blob/master/src/helpers/functions/Install-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem.ps1
That one does not work in Windows 8, only <= Windows 7. Also, it does not work for any Windows language other than English.

This one works in 6 languages, and more if someone can add the correct words to the language arrays.

[Redsandro]

This thing has not made it in yet?

[ferventcoder]

Been a little busy, but that should be clearing up soon. :)

[Redsandro]

Also fixed Dutch language

[Redsandro]

I was wondering, is the Start Menu directory in Windows translated internally from English to the locale, or vice-versa?

If so, this becomes a hell of a lot easier:

  $appData = [environment]::GetFolderPath([environment+specialfolder]::ApplicationData)
  $destPath = Join-Path "$appData" "Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\"
  $destLink = Join-Path "$destPath" "Name Of Target.lnk"

  $shell = New-Object -comObject WScript.Shell
  $shortcut = $shell.CreateShortcut($destLink)
  $shortcut.TargetPath = Join-Path "C:\Path\To\Binary.exe"
  $shortcut.Save()

[Redsandro]

A reminder that the old version that only works on English systems is still unfixed one year later:

https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/blob/master/src/helpers/functions/Install-ChocolateyPinnedTaskBarItem.ps1

[Redsandro]

bump

2015 alert. We need this.

[ferventcoder]

And it's not in there yet?

[ferventcoder]

I thought we decided to prefer Install-ChocolateyShortcut over this - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/blob/master/src/chocolatey.resources/helpers/functions/Install-ChocolateyShortcut.ps1 ?

[Redsandro]

Where is the discussion about this? You might be right, but I have no
recollection of year old decisions. :P

Anyway, this needs to be automated in installZipPackage, where a lot of GUI
tools now get a command-line shim when they would actually need a start
menu entry.
E.g. SomeGraphicalTool.STARTMENU creates a user-friendly entry in Start
instead of a power-user Shim.

There are a lot of new packages with GUI tools that (automatically) create
shims, making these packages valid for power users only. There needs to be
an easy way to have shims for the really nerdy tools, and start menu
entries for packages that average users might want to have pre-installed on
their laptops.

Op vr 17 jul. 2015 om 14:00 schreef Rob Reynolds [email protected]:

I thought we decided to prefer Install-ChocolateyShortcut over this -
https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/blob/master/src/chocolatey.resources/helpers/functions/Install-ChocolateyShortcut.ps1
?

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