Keith Miller MVP

It seems folders & shortcuts to folders must be added at or below:

"C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs"

If they are adding directly under:

"C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu"

they will not work.

Also, if you're dragging a .lnk shortcut to the folder or creating a
shortcut via 'Right-Click->New->Shortcut', the resulting shortcut will open
an Explorer window. But, if you create the shortcut by right-clicking and
dragging the target folder to "...\Start Menu\Programs", and selecting
'Create Shortcut' upon releasing the mouse button, you create a different
type of shortcut -- one that will cascade as you expect. In a details view
of the folder, this type of shortcut will show a Type of 'File' rather than
'Shortcut'


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

"Mikael" <Mikael@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In Windows XP, I was able to add links and folders with links to the
> "Open"
> or "Open all Users" folders. This way, my links and folders would show up
> in
> the Start Menu after clicking on the start button. And: The folders wold
> expand upon clicking. I used this feature to easily access a larger number
> of
> links to programs I was using al the time.
>
> In Vista, this changed. I can still add my own links to the Start menu.
> But
> when I add a folder link to the Start menu, the folder does no longer
> expand
> when clicking on it in the Start menu. Rather, the folder opens in a new
> window.
>
> Is there a way to have folder links expand in the Start menu, as it did in
> XP?
>