By: Eugene Reyes

Do you wish you had a Control Panel, Dial-Up Networking, Internet Cache, Printers, Recycling Bin, or URL History folder right on your Start menu, so that when you selected it, a pop-out menu of all items inside appeared? Follow the steps below to add any one of these 'magic' folders to your Start menu.

Right-click the Start button and select Open. Inside the Start Menu window, right-click a blank area and select File, New, Folder. Type ONE of the following names, depending on the folder you want to create:

Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}

DUN.{992CFFA0-F557-101A-88EC-00DD010CCC48}

Internet Cache.{7BD29E00-76C1-11CF-9DD0-00A0C9034933}

Printers.{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}

Recycle Bin.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

URL History folder.{FF393560-C2A7-11CF-BFF4-444553540000}

then press Enter. (Tip: To save on typing, carefully copy and paste the name from this page) You'll know you've been successful if you see a folder with the appropriate icon and name.

If you type the name incorrectly, you'll see a folder with a plain yellow icon and a very long name. Select the incorrectly named folder, press F2 for Rename, and try again, noting that there's no space between the period and the open bracket.

NOTE: Adding a cascading Recycle Bin menu to the Start button menu merely lets you review the properties of any file in the Recycle Bin; you must go directly to the Recycle Bin to restore or open a file or to empty the bin.

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