Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 95): the (shared) "Start Menu" is dispensable

Posted by Stefan Kanthak via Fulldisclosure on Jan 10Hi @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%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\", with some shortcuts (*.lnk) "reflected" from the (immutable) component store below %SystemRoot%\WinSxS\ JFTR:...