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Cascading “My Documents” items in the new Start menu.

This setting enables you to control the display of “My Documents” either as cascaded menu or as a folder link in the new Start menu.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Description:

Cascaded menu makes the items behave like menus with submenus instead of just opening the related folder. With this setting, you can make the “My Documents” display its items in cascade menu rather than opening a folder link.

For this, go to Start > Run, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a DWORD value “Start_ShowMyDocs”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “2” which can show “My Documents” items in a cascade menu. However, if you want to show folder display back, change the value data to “1” or delete the value.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
This setting will have no effect if you use the Classic Start menu display in Windows.

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Cascade My Documents in Start Menu.reg

The '.reg' file can cascade "My Documents" items in the new Start menu.

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Show My Documents in Start Menu (Default).Reg

The '.reg' file can show the "My Documents" items in the new Start menu as folder link.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\]

Key Type :

Current User

Value Name :

Start_ShowMyDocs

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

Cascading “My Documents” items inside the new Start menu is enabled.

Cascading “My Documents” items inside the new Start menu is disabled.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\] and create a new 'DWORD value' as "Start_ShowMyDocs ".

Right Click on "Start_ShowMyDocs" and select 'Modify'.

Finally, set the value data as "1" and click 'OK'.