Sunday, November 06, 2016

How To Add Folders To Start Menu In Windows 10?

The Start menu in Windows 10 is little unusual. But this can be made usual with a little customization. Here how to add folders like File Explorer, Settings, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, HomeGroup, Network and Personal folder. These folders on the start screen, ease you the job without actually searching for them inside windows.

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How To Add Folders to Start Menu In Windows 10?

The Start menu has three sections. On the left, you can find icons representing power, settings, file explorer and your account related settings. These can be figured out by just clicking on the menu button at the top of this section with three horizontal lines to reveal labels for each icon.

The center panel consists of the list of applications that are most recently added, most used and suggested apps. The right panel of the start menu is unchanged.


Here are the steps to add folder to Windows 10 Start menu:

Adding folders to Windows 10 is the customizations of Start menu by personalizing the Start menu by choosing which folders to add to it.

Step1. Right-click on the desktop and select personalize. Click on personalize.

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How To Add Folders to Start Menu In Windows 10?


Step2. Click on Start on the left side and scroll down on the right side, to find the option choose which folder appear on start and click on it.

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How To Add Folders to Start Menu In Windows 10?

Step3. Now just turn folders locations on or off by just flipping the switches.

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How To Add Folders to Start Menu In Windows 10?

Step4. All the folders that are turned on, will be added to start menu as shown in the figure.

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How To Add Folders to Start Menu In Windows 10?


These are just folders; they are not the apps, clicking on directly open the files in the folders.


Make use of this simple trick of adding folders to start menu and make work easy for you.

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