How To Pin A Web Shortcut To Your XP Start Menu

Contributed by shamanstears

August 4, 2006

Tagged: Windows networking

This will pin a shortcut to any web site into your start menu. This is handy for links such as your intranet or webmail site.

Open up Notepad and copy the following (we will use Tech-Recipes.com as the example):


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}]

@=”Tech-Recipes.com” 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}DefaultIcon]

@=”%SystemRoot%system32shell32.dll,-47″ 
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}InstanceInitPropertyBag]

“CLSID”=”{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}”

“method”=”ShellExecute”

“Command”=”Tech-Recipes.com”

“Param1″=”http://www.tech-recipes.com/”

Save and name the file something like XP_Tech-Recipes_StartMenu.reg.

Run the reg file you just created and reboot. Now you have a link to the site on your Start Menu.

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