Most of the shortcuts and programs can me made to “Pin to Start menu” by right clicking on them. However this is not possible when it comes to folders. Now suppose of you have some folder in a drive which you access more often , what you do? Till now i had been making a shortcut on desktop but then what if You can pin it to start menu ? Wouldn’t be it useful. Here are the steps which to both Xp and Vista

Pin to start menu is not available for folder by default

Steps to add Pin to start menu for folders on right click

• Type regedit on run box and enter .
• Follow this path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers
• Right click on the right pane and Add a new key Key > New
• Name the key with this string including the bracket.
• Now you can exit the registry editor.
• Now go to any folder you want to add to start menu, Select it and press Shift Key and then do a right click on it. You will see the “Pin to start menu appearing there”

Add registry key to ContextMenuhandler

Now “Pin to start menu” Appears for folders

This will be extremely useful if you have important data in folders which you need to access frequently. This is applicable to both XP and Vista. Enjoy it

Bonus Tip: If the default windows zip tool is somehow disabled in your system type “regsver32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll” in run box or command prompt and hit enter. It will be re enabled again.

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