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From: Frankie <frankie@nospam.usa>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone have W10 (Pro)'s Start Menu keep getting rearranged often these days?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:00:52 -0500
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On 14/9/2024, Ant wrote:

>> This taskbar pinned folder of shortcuts has existed since WinXP days.
>> But it no longer works on Windows 11 for reasons known only to Microsoft.
> 
> Wow, thank you for the quick answer! Ugh, W11 removed this? Annoying. :(\

Just to be clear, you do that with the Windows 10 taskbar toolbar menu.
Rightclick on the taskbar > Toolbars > New toolbar > pick your folder

This creates a perfectly hierarchical accordion style menu just like
Windows XP had which will pull out when you need it (and which you can
compress on the taskbar so that only the name "Start" shows up there).

It's amazing that Microsoft removed this accordion menu feature in Windows
11, where they probably want to force people to use their alphabet menu.

Another way to make your life easier is to periodically make a copy of
'%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu' (which is for the individual user)
and '%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu' (which is for everyone).

Then, when they get changed, instead of re-arranging Microsoft's mess, 
you just overwrite the current folder with those backup preserved copies.

Or, even better, just copy those two folders to a new folder and then pin
that personalized customized start menu folder to the Windows 10 taskbar?

As I said, it's too bad Microsoft removed pinned cascade menus from Win11.