hi gang was just messing around trying to pin favorites to the start menu and found an easy way accidently. 1 go to start/control panel/taskbar and start menu 2 when the dialogue box opens tab to the start menu tab 3 make sure the classic menu box is ticked 4 then tab to customise 5 tab down to advanced start menu options 6 use your arrows keys to down arrow to where it says display favorites and tick this so it now says on. 7 click ok job is oxo its col because i can now just press the windows key to get into the start menu and in my case pressing the letter a gets me straight into my favourites. also now everytime i ass a favourite it will then appear in my favourties which i access using the route above. thanks for the help in helping me sort this one, it was really wrecking my head. cheers paul h ----- Original Message ----- From: vincent stack To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 2:21 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: favorites in start menu hello paul hav a look at the link.i think this is what you need. i havent done it on xp but on vista i have to do control and tab to find the start menu options.. have a look and see. http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/adding-favorites-to-start-menu/9008.html regards ----- Original Message ----- From: Maureen Newelll To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 2:01 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: favorites in start menu Hello Paul, Go to your favorites folder, press the application key and arrow down to "create shortcut" and enter. This will place an icon to favorites on your desktop. Hope this is of help. Maureen. ----- Original Message ----- From: paul To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 12:01 PM Subject: [vicsireland] favorites in start menu hi gang can anyone remind me how to pin the favorites folder to the start menu? many thanks Paul H ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 5047 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message.