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I just had to reinstall windows, so now I'm trying to get all my settings back, but I'm having a little problem with one thing.
In my start menu before I had shortcuts in the top part to my computer and my documents, and they exanded. If you don't know what I mean here's an example: I click my start button, and up in the top section there's the icons for my computer and my documents, and it says "shortcut to..." when I would hover either it would expand to show the folders in those.
Now I looked through all the taskbar and startmenu options and couldn't find anything like that. So I thought maybe it was a tweakui thing, so i downloaded tweakui again and there's no option for that there either. Now I can make a shortcut and put it in the start menu, but there's no way to make it expandible. If anyone knows how to do this please let me know, I had my computer like that for over a year, and it's going to make me nuts without it.

It's really very simple to do.
Start
Settings
TaskBar and Start Menu
Advanced
Add
Browse to Executable
Select
Open
Next
Click on "Start Menu"
Next
FinishThat's all there is to it....

http://www.canadaone.com/ezine/tech/tip17.html
http://www.awitness.org/software/tips/windows_start_menu.html

Jennifer SUMN, I don't understand what you mean when you say "browse to executable", what executable? should there be something named executable? or are you saying to browse to like "my computer" if I browse to my computer and click open it goes to the contents of my computer.
thank you.

okay, if I make a shortcut to my computer, I can choose it when I browse, but once it's in the start menu it's not expandable, i need it to be exandable.

never mind, i found it on info world, it only takes a drag and a drop. Just grab the icon from the desktop and drag it into the top part of the start menu, do it so you can see what i mean that it's expandable.

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