NI Launcher improvements (Windows 8 only)

[altenbach]

According to the LabVIEW 2013 readme file (see attached image), NI installs a so called NI Launcher to work around serious shortcoming in the Windows 8 start menu. 

This is an essential tool because the Windows 8 start menu is flat (non-hierarchical) and if there are many NI products installed, the "all apps" screen shows pages and pages of tiles of e.g pdf help documents and it is impossible to find anything without scrolling forever.

Unfortunately, the NI Launcher functionality is quite limited to what we were used to be able to do in e.g. the Windows 7 start menu. All we can do is browse and launch a NI application.

While the readme suggest to pin often used program to the desktop, taskbar, or start screen, we can only do this by finding the icon on the Windows 8 "all apps" start screen first, where we can easily get lost if many NI products are installed! Yes, believe me, it is very tedious!!!

I suggest to add several right-click options to each entry directly in the NI launcher (similar to what we see in the windows 7 start menu):

• open
• pin to task bar (very important!)
• open file location
• troubleshoot compatibility
• run as administrator
• pin to start menu
• ...
•  (anything that is easily possible to implement)

 Idea summary: NI Launcher should have right-click options for each entry similar to the Windows 7 start menu.

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