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Learn how to add any item or shortcut to WinX Power Menu on Windows 11/10. The Power User menu in Windows contains useful shortcuts to important Windows features.

Question: How can I add a Start menu, or something like it, back to Windows 8? Without that and its list of all of your installed programs, you have to go subject yourself to a form of computing ...

You can place shortcuts to programs and other items in the Start Menu or Start Screen by adding them to the ‘pinned’ list. Any program exe file or a shortcut can be pinned to the Start Screen ...

If you’d like to take this a step further and add an entire section of websites to Start, check out our earlier tutorial on customizing the Windows 10 Start menu.

Adding PowerPoint to the Start Menu. The Start menu in Windows 7 and earlier versions provides easy access to programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint. If you accidentally delete the shortcut from ...

You can launch Computer Management from the list that appears when you right click the Start menu, but would be worth adding elsewhere if you were considering a shortcut to one of those locations.

Finally, right-click on that shortcut and choose Properties then Change Icon and from the menu that pops up you will pin the shortcut to your start menu.