have hal open your start menu

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note: only tested on windows 7 atm
to get Hal to open the start menu via command "open Start menu"
open notepad
add the script below to the document

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set ws = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
ws.sendkeys("^{ESC}") save the file with the name Startmenue.vbs
place the file in a permanent home like in your documents folder
create a shortcut for the file then rename the shortcut to "start menu"
then place the shortcut into you programs folder
now you can tell Hal "open start menu" and he will open up your start menu
also now if you wanted you can have your task bar hidden
by right clicking on your taskbar select properties and select auto-hide the taskbar


note: if the above fails to open the batch files, for Hal might not right away index them

go into Hals main folder and open shortcut.dat with notepad
scroll to the bottom and add these two lines to the list and don't forget to save
example:
shared drive
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\shared drive.lnk.lnk"