How to Add Your Favorite Folders to Windows 10′s Start Menu

David Pogue
·Tech Critic

In general, the bottom of the left side of the Start menu in Windows 10 is devoted to listing important places on the computer. On a shiny new PC, the list includes things like:

  • File Explorer. This “app” is the standard desktop window, showing the contents of your drives and folders.

  • Settings. Yes, adjusting the settings and preferences of your PC is about six steps quicker now, since Settings is listed right here in the Start menu.

  • Power. Hard though it may be to believe, there may come a day when you want to shut down or restart your computer.

  • All apps opens the complete master list of all your programs, as described below.

What’s great, though, is that you can add other important folders to this list. As shown in the video above—you choose Settings from the Start menu. In the Settings window, choose Personalization. On the next screen, click Start. Finally, click “Choose which folders appear on Start.”

Up pops a list of items like File Explorer, Settings, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, HomeGroup, and Network, so that you can turn on or off the ones you like.

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