Actually the confusion here is not unwarranted.

I've had a few occasions where the application WOULD in fact end up on the start menu, but it's not repeatable. It doesn't matter where the app is started from. There's something that has to happen inside of the application to show up there...

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>Update : Wrong answer
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>Rick,
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>RightClick on the application
>- the application itself from the windows explorer
>- a shortcut to the application in the windows explorer
>- app in the start menu for recently used applications
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>Choices:
>- pin to taskbar
>- pin to start menu (it will then appear permanently in the upper half of the start menu)
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>See image attached
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>>Does anybody know how one gets their application to show up on the Windows Start Menu for recently used applications?
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>>In Windows 7 if you open the start menu the main tab holds a bunch of recently used applications. What goes on there seems very spotty, so it's not automatic obviously - somehow the application running has to notify windows to display it self on that list.
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>>Any idea how to do that or what the name of this list is called officially? I can't seem to find the right documentation to do this.
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>>FWIW, it's not Recently Used Documents that I'm after. That's easily accomplished with SHAddToRecentDocs. It's the recent application list which in turn also shows the recent documents (which is really cool).
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>>Any help appreciated,
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