Start menu Video shortcut

[RonaldA]

Hi Friends.

I want to add shortcut for my video files in start menu, i m fed up of going in folders again and again to view videos. Anyone knew how to add a this shortcut?

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

[Isaac1]

I don't know about the start menu shortcut. But you can add shortcut in taskbar. Follow these steps:

• Right click the taskbar
• Go to Toolbars
• then check "Links"

This will set a links capability on the right of your taskbar. (Links>>)
Into there you can also drag the shortcuts from the desktop and you can go to that by clicking "Links>>" on taskbar.

[Jimmy24]

If you want to create a Start Menu shortcut just right click on the icon and select “Pin To Start Menu”. If you prefer to right click on the right and select the option “Pin to Start Menu”, the following registry hack will add “Pin to Start Menu” menu item to the special right click context menu for folder.

• Click Start button, then click on Run (for Windows XP) or Start Search (for Windows Vista) and type RegEdit.exe in the text box, then press Enter or click OK.
• Navigate to the following registry key

  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

• Create a new key named {a2a9545d-a0c2-42b4-9708-a0b2badd77c8} (including the bracket).
• To create a new sub-key, right click on ContextMenuHandlers, then select New -> Key.
• Then Exit from Registry Editor.

To use “Pin to the Start Menu” context menu item to pin a folder, press and hold down the SHIFT key, and then right-click a folder.

[Gusgr8]

You can simply drag and drop the folder from anywhere to the Start button or Start menu.
If you wan to create a Quick launch bar shortcut just drag and drop the Icon from desktop on Quick Launch bar.