Last Update: June 2, 2005<br>
You've got your WinXP ooRexx application all ready for distribution and have included the procedures for installing ooRexx, your application, and associating the .rex extension with either rexx.exe or rexxhide.exe (how to do that will be in a later example here).  Now all that is left to make your application easy to execute is adding it to the WinXP "Start" menu.  Well you could script the addition of a program group, etc. and place your application there, but you know your user is going to want fast access to your application.  So let's "pin" it to the WinXP Start Menu.  (If you're not sure what a pinned application is, click the Start button on your WinXP system - on the left you will see two groups of applications.  The bottom group changes dependant upon how often you use an application - the top group are applications that are pinned.) <br>
There are 2 ooRexx scripts in this zip file one will pin calc.exe to your Start menu and the other will UnPin calc.exe.  Of course you can change calc.exe to your application.