{"id":1791,"date":"2011-05-09T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2011-05-09T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:23:05","slug":"pin-folders-to-the-start-menu-so-you-can-find-them-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/pin-folders-to-the-start-menu-so-you-can-find-them-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Pin folders to the start menu so you can find them fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually  you can add an application to the pin menu by simply right  \t\tclicking  on the application, and clicking \u201cPin to Start Menu\u201d. But if  \t\tyou want  to add a folder to the start menu, you have to drag it there.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to show you how to add the right-click \u201cPin to Start Menu\u201d  \t\twork for folders too.<\/p>\n<p>1. Press the Windows Key + R (this opens the Run command)<br \/>\n2. Enter Regedit.exe and press Enter, or click OK.<br \/>\n3. Browse to the following location:  \t\tHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershellexContextMenuHandlers<br \/>\n4. Create a new key called {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8} with  \t\tno value.<br \/>\n5. Close the Registry Editor<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2010\/pin-folder2.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"InfoAve by Cloudeight\" width=\"325\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s  it. You\u2019re done. You will have to  \t\treboot your computer before you  have the option to pin folders to the  \t\tstart menu. If for some reason  you don\u2019t want the \u201cPin to start menu\u201d  \t\toption for folders, just  delete the key you created.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven\u2019t figured this out yet \u2013 this tip is for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually you can add an application to the pin menu by simply right clicking on the application, and clicking \u201cPin to Start Menu\u201d. But if you want to add a folder to the start menu, you have to drag it there. We\u2019re going to show you how to add the right-click \u201cPin to Start Menu\u201d work for folders\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/pin-folders-to-the-start-menu-so-you-can-find-them-fast\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[517,1150,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}