Possible to have Custom Start Menu Folder in Windows 7

[Sumeet.Pra]

Hello friends, I would like to pin a folder or something in start menu so that I can put mouse over and it will enlarge and have a bunch of applications which I used often use. Such that when I go Start and then to Paint my start menu will expand and will be having a list of all recent pics which I have visited or opened. So I would like to pin something to start menu that when I mouse over it has app's I use. So is thing possible to be done or not? Please tell me about it. Thank you.

[Belendithas]

If you wanted to that then you might be able to get just by adding new toolbars on the taskbar, just try out the following method:

• Create a folder and put your shortcuts,
• Including shortcuts to your app folders in it.
• Right click on taskbar
• Then select Toolbars
• After that New toolbar.
• Navigate to, and open, the folder you created,
• Then click "Select Folder".
• On the taskbar, drag by the left vertical bar to where you want.
• Drag the right vertical bar toward the left to hide the toolbar contents, as much as you like.
• Right click on the left vertical bar and unselect "Show text" and "Show title".
• Lock the taskbar, and the vertical bars vanish.

When you have done this then you just have to click on the >> button which is right to spread out the toolbar list, then the folder shortcuts in there will expand when you mouse hover. You be able to use lots of toolbars as you require. If you wish for to space them, make an empty folder and a toolbar for it on the taskbar, and make bigger empty space as required by dragging the right vertical bar.

[Xylina]

I'd be interested to hear if you get a way to do that. I have found the toolbar setup to be a quicker and more usable route to files, folders and programs than the Start menu - think of it as a substitution for the Start button.