Thread: Dragging Items to the Start Menu

Here's a case where Vista's developers took a feature that worked beautifully in Windows XP, and ruined it. In XP, if you wanted Start menu access to a program,
file, or folder, all you needed to do was drag the item to the Start button and then to your desired location in the Start menu; Windows would then create a shortcut.
If you were to try that in Vista, it would actually move the file, program, or folder to the Start-menu folder. I'd be hard-pressed to imagine a situation where that would be a desirable result. No real solutions are available, but here are a couple of kludgy workarounds.



1. Drop it on the Start button, not in the menu: This action creates a shortcut, but it appears on the left pane, rather than in the All Programs section. And if the item is a folder, the shortcut doesn't act as a cascading submenu.

2. Use the context menu: Instead of left-dragging the object to the desired location in the Start menu, right-drag it. When you release the button, select Create Shoncuts Here from the resulting menu.