How to enable “Pin to Start Menu” for folders in XP and Vista
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.
Posted on 11th September 2007 by Ashish Mohta , A Professional Tech blogger, Editor and Writer who talks about solving day to day problems of people who use computer. He also writes on How to use the applications like Office, PC tips, Online tools,Browsers and more. All posts by Ashish Mohta | Connect with me @ Twitter | Linkedin | Facebook | Stumble
this is just what im after but u dont seem to have provided the new registry string anywhere
have i somehow missed it??
Hi the string is clear in the image. Still here it is which you can readily use {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}
Hey.. You know what… I have a much simple and straight forward solution for this… Takes a few seconds
I am a Noob and I don’t try all these regedits…
1. Just drag the folder to the start menu…
2. The start menu will open…
3. Then move the cursor and leave it…
4. Voila! Your done.
TO Tejaswi,
Well done just what I needed and so simple editing registry did not help on WIndows XP SP2.
Thanks
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