Memoirs of a Technocrat

I just recently migrated to Windows 7. For those of you that have already done this, and have used another version of Windows in the past. The new Start Menu could either be a dramatic improvement from the previous version, or a terrible frustration.

Rest assured, there is a solution to the problem.

In Windows 7, by default you cannot pin folders or libraries to the start menu, but with the following registry modification it becomes possible.

Steps:

1. run 'regedit'
2. Navigate to 'HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers'
3. Right click on 'ConextMenuHandlers' and add a new key: {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8}

To remove this ability, simply delete this key.