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There’s a folder in my documents that I regularly access that I wanted listed on my Start Menu. There are other ways of quickly accessing folders or documents such as having quick links on the taskbar or shortcuts on the desktop but the real advantage of this is the keyboard shortcut with the Windows key, the first letter of the folder and the return key.

1. Open up regedit from using the run menu.
2. Locate ‘HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ Folder\ shellex\ ContextMenuHandlers‘
3. Add the following as a subkey: ‘{a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}’ (without the quotes!)
4. Exit regedit…… (Continued)………

Now, simply hold down the shift key when right clicking on any folder to show the updated context menu. From the menu click the ‘Pin to Start Menu’ option to add to the start menu. In my case I can now do the Windows key and ‘M’ key followed by enter to open the desired folder. This also works with your documents and programs as well.