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Cascading “My Pictures” items inside the Start menu (All Users).

setting enables you to control the display of “My Pictures” either as cascade menu or as a folder link inside Start menu.

Tweak for : Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista

Description:

Cascade menu makes the items behave like menus with submenus instead of just opening the related folder. With this setting, you can make the “My Pictures” 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 String value “CascadeMyPictures”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “Yes” which can show “My Pictures” items as a cascade menu. However, if you want to show folder display back, change the value data to “No” or delete the value.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
These settings will have no effect if you use the new (2-panel) display of the Start Menu in Windows.

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Cascade MyPictures in Setting in Start Menu.reg

The '.reg' file can cascade "My Pictures" items in Documents menu of Start Menu.

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Unexpand MyPictures in Setting in Start Menu (Default).reg

The '.reg' file can show the folder view of "My Pictures" items in Documents menu of Start Menu.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

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

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

CascadeMyPictures

Data Type :

REG_SZ (String Value)

Enabled Value :

Yes

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

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

Cascaded 'My Pictures' items inside the Documents menu of Start menu.

No cascading of 'My Pictures' items inside the Documents menu of Start menu.

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

Go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Explorer\Advanced\] , right-click in the open area to create a String Value with the name "CascadeMyPictures" in "Advanced" key.

Next, right-click on "CascadeMyPictures" and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value User "Yes" in the text box and click on 'OK'.