Windows 8.1 thinks that my Visual Studio 2010 Shortcut is called Sql Data Tools

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2014-07
  • chobo2

    When I go into the Start screen, I have a tile for Visual Studio. However, it is not called Visual Studio 2010 but Sql Data Tools.

    I then proceeded to remove it from the tiles and went to my desktop and created a shortcut to Visual Studio 2010. Then I right clicked on my shortcut and "pinned it to start", but it keeps using the wrong name.

    How do I manually rename it in the Start screen?

    • Answers
  • Mike Miller

    Right the way I did it was....

    Copy a new shortcut lnk to the location (use win+r to open a run command box)

    shell:start menu\programs

    It won't appear in all apps under the right location, but you pin it to the start and search for it as expected.


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  • user24076

    When starting setup.exe on my Windows 7 RTM x64, I get the following error:

    Visual Studio 2010 cannot run in Compatibility Mode

    I know that and it does make sense.

    However, I didn't run it in compatibility mode. Nor is this compatibility mode active on the setup.exe.

    Does anyone know how to fix this?


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  • slhck

    I had the same problem. I found this website though, and it's working:

    I found a workaround by performing the following steps:

    • Created a folder called "setup" at the root (c:\setup)
    • Moved the vm_web.exe file to the new folder (c:\setup\vm_web.exe)
    • Run it from the new location.
  • Ganesh R.

    I have installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Professional Edition) on Windows 7 RTM x64 with no problems. I would attempt to download the setup again to see if that fixes it. If you are using the web bootstrapper it is a fairly small download.

  • karatedog

    Goto \Setup\ folder on the installation CD/ISO then find setup.exe click on Properties->Compatibility->Change for all users and uncheck Run in compatibility for.. radio-button. Do the same with setup.exe in the disk root folder.