#post-id: 5247-20-28
#original-date: 7.12.2014 Sun
#original-time: 8:28 PM
#original-day:  5247
#original-host: WinXP Home SP3 (Build 2600)

> *The contents of the Start page are not programmatically 
>  accessible*
> 
> A customer wanted to know if is possible for an application to 
> edit the user's Start page. 
> 
> No, there is no interface for editing the user's Start page or 
> even knowing what is on it. The Start page is the user's 
> personal space and applications should not be messing with it. 
> 
> Imagine if it were possible. Every application would edit the 
> Start page to put themselves at the front! 
> 
> It turns out that the customer wanted their application to make 
> some changes to the user's Start page when it was installed. 
> Specifically, they wanted to hunt down tiles belonging to their 
> competitors and delete them, then insert a tile for the 
> newly-installed program in exactly the spot the competitor's tile 
> used to be. 
> 
> In other words, somebody was looking to get a really nice bonus.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/03/20/1915586.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/10/29/10568120.aspx

Не иначе как из Симантика или Борланда ребята.

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