Editing File system in Visual Studio 2010Installer - visual-studio-2010

I am trying to add a shortcut to the exectuable in the user's start menu.
There are many answer on StackOverflow that detail how to do this.
However, the all say something along the lines of 'Right click in the right-hand pane to...'
So I understand you all have an interface that looks something like:
I don't have the panel on the extredme right - entitled 'Name' containing the Primary Output.
I have gone through every menu option I can find to enable this pane, but can't find it.
Anyone know how to show this window?

I am wondering wether or not the splitter has been dragged all of the way to the right. Try collapsing all of your side menus like the solution / property / toolbox etc.. to make sure that the File System editor is filling the entire window then look if you can see a splitter to the right. I have not found any way to delete that panel yet. You can also try right clicking on the File system Tab and tell it to float then make it go full screen to see if the splitter is visible then.

I had the same problem, tried to find another splitter but couldn't, got the 2nd detail pane by opening Visual Studio 2010 using the 'Run as administrator' command.

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https://dailies.rstudio.com/
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