Why do pinned items show up twice in the Windows 7 start menu?

Question

My start menu has two entries for Firefox. I pinned Firefox to the start menu. One shortcut is from the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder, and the other from C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu. I checked and both shortcuts have the exact same target ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe").

These shouldn't show up twice. On another Windows 7 system, when I pin an item, it no longer appears in the other (recent) list. On this system however, it does.

If I unpin the pinned shortcut, it's gone and only the other icon appears. I only want the pinned version though.

Is there a way to stop both icons from showing up?

Answer 1

1 is Pinned, 2 is "recently opened" and #2 list can vary depending on which program you use and how often.

.

Source of Information

Answer 2

So I discovered what the issue was. I had done a fresh install of Windows 7, but copied my user folder from the old install. This included copying the C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu folder.

Although windows showed the "pinned" icons in my start menu, it didn't actually show them as pinned. When I went into that folder and deleted all of the shortcuts, the duplicate entries disappeared.