Customizing Start Menu Folders

[Isolated]

I'm using Windows XP Home, and have a quick question about the Start menu. There are two parts, right and left. We all know that. On the left, we have recently opened programs or pinned programs. On the right, we have several locations available. I would like to pin a folder to the right side of the Start menu, near My Documents and My Music. I haven't been able to find a way to do this.

If this is impossible, can I pin the folder to the start menu like I would any other program? You can't click and drag from Windows Explorer or the desktop to the Start menu, so I'm not sure that this is possible either.

Suggestions are much appreciated.

[flaredit]

As far as I know this isn't possible! I teach using Windows XP (rather than real technical stuff,) but have never had a request for this and so never looked into it, but had a quick think and look and can't find anything

[overload]

If you wan't it to open the folder like a menu type deal, you can't what you can do is pin a shortcut to the folder. Wich will open Explorer in the folder location.

[khsinclair]

"Pin to Start menu" isn't enough if you have many programs you need quick access to - you need some folders to organize it. Here's a quick way to create new menus of useful programs in the Start Menu.

Pick one of the useless Microsoft-supplied menus, such as "My Music" or My Pictures". Enable it on the Start menu if you need to, as a menu for quick access.

Then you can right-click "My Music" and Rename it to Utilities or whatever, adding shortcuts and folders underneath for hierarchy. You can edit the desktop.ini file in that folder to change the icon if you want.

Seems like you should be able to create another My Music folder, and repeat
the process to get more menus. The obvious approach didn't work, though.
Perhaps someone else can figure out where Windows maintains a pointer to
the My Music folder even after it's been renamed.