The left hand pane of your start menu contains pinned items above the separator and frequently used items below it. If you want an item to appear on the menu all the time, you will have to pin it.
To enable the menu bar without directly accessing it, you can use keyboard shortcuts. For example, on Windows, you can press the "Alt" key to temporarily show the menu bar in many applications. Alternatively, you can access application settings or preferences using keyboard shortcuts or by right-clicking on the application title bar to enable the menu bar option.
Shortcuts (link files) are small files that contain a command line or URL (universal resource locator). They are provided as a convenience; the start menu alone would not be possible without shortcuts. Neither would your Recent Items or Favourites menus. Shortcuts have the file extension LNK (.lnk) and URL (.url). The shortcut menu exists to allow you to create your own shortcuts, however dragging an icon with the right-mouse button also allows you to create a shortcut wherever you drop the icon. The icon may be an executable or another shortcut. You can also drag web addresses from the icon on the far left of the address bar to create URL shortcuts.
shortcuts for frequently used menu commands
There is no specific "shortcut area" in Windows. You can place shortcuts wherever you like. Shortcuts are useful because they allow us to access programs and data from places that are convenient to us. Typically, we place shortcuts on the desktop, in the start menu and on the taskbar as these places are always accessible.
Press the Windows Key to Pull up the Start Menu. You will have to use the arrow keys to navigate to the startup menu.
You can simply make a folder in your start menu and move all your game shortcuts into it so that you know how to get to all of them.
Use the 'search' function in the Start menu.
Just go to the start menu and all programs then right click on the programs and click send to desktop (create shortcut).
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Generally, there are shortcuts to various applications or software on the desktop. I guess you can delete the shortcuts and still find the applications on the "start" menu. But, if the applications are directly saved to the desktop, you will first have to move them to the hard drive and ensure you have a copy of it before deleting. Suggestion: Delete some application shortcut from the desktop which is not important for you. Search the "start" menu and see if you can find it. And then, implement this on the other important applications.
The menu bar holds shortcuts to frequently used programs. A person can place different menus under a menu bar as well in order to save space.
Start menu>all programs>accessories>games