{"id":7603,"date":"2017-12-07T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2017-12-07T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:12:23","slug":"pin-to-start-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/pin-to-start-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Pin to Start in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can pin a shortcut to the Start menu in Windows 10. Note that you can&#8217;t pin a document itself to the start menu, just a shortcut to it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<p>To add Pin to Start to the context menu for a file, you will have to modify the Windows Registry. But first, create a system restore point!<\/p>\n<p>Now, to add Pin to Start easily, copy-paste the following in a Notepad and save it as a \u00a0<strong>.reg file<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>; Created by TheWindowsClub [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\*\\shellex\\ContextMenuHandlers\\PinToStartScreen] @=&#8221;{470C0EBD-5D73-4d58-9CED-E91E22E23282}&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now click on the .reg file to add its contents to your registry. You will be asked for confirmation, so you may click Yes, to add it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewindowsclub.com\/pin-file-to-start-menu-windows-10\">http:\/\/www.thewindowsclub.com\/pin-file-to-start-menu-windows-10<\/a> \u00a0 and \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-start\/pin-to-start-any-file-windows-10-pro\/acb769bc-e5d9-4be9-8a76-0aff7cdab6c8?auth=1\">https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/forum\/windows_10-start\/pin-to-start-any-file-windows-10-pro\/acb769bc-e5d9-4be9-8a76-0aff7cdab6c8?auth=1<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can pin a shortcut to the Start menu in Windows 10. Note that you can&#8217;t pin a document itself to the start menu, just a shortcut to it. Here&#8217;s how: To add Pin to Start to the context menu for a file, you will have to modify the Windows Registry. But first, create a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}