Pin Applications to Start Menu

I had always struggled to get the software icons in the location where I could find them easily. I started using Quick launch for this purpose. This was fine for few icons, but then the list started growing and half of my Task bar was filled with software icons. I kept my favourite software application shortcuts on the desktop itself, but my desktop was cluttered so much that I couldn’t see the background image on my desktop. Then I started using a folder on desktop that had all of my favourite software shortcuts. This was alright but I had to click on that folder first to access my icons.

I came across this tip of keeping software icons in start menu and I liked it (I am not sure exactly where I saw this tip so sorry for that), so much so that I started using it straight away. Open the software from the START menu for the first time. When you do this the shortcut is displayed in the START menu. This is fine but when you haven’t used this for a while it disappears from there. To keep it permanently there, right click the application icon and select “Pin to Start menu” as shown in the figure