Restoring the missing Notepad back on to the Start menu

Reason: Many a times the shortcut for Notepad in the Start menu may be deleted accidentally.

Exact location of Notepad: "C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe

Solution: Please follow the below steps to restore the Notepad icon:

1) Right click on the Taskbar, (It is a bar at the bottom of your screen with Start button, Clock, etc)
2) You will be displayed with a Window that has two options a) Start Menu and b) Classic Start Menu
3) Select Classic Start Menu option,
4) Then click on the Customize button,
5) Under Start Menu frame, click on Add button,
6) You will be displayed with "Create Shortcut" Window,
7) There you can see a white box and "Browse" button,
8) Click on Browse button, then you will displayed with "Browse for Folder" Window,
9) Click on the "+"button of "My Computer",
10) Click on the "+"button of "Local Disk (C:)",
11) Click on the "+"button of "Windows",
12) Click on the "+"button of "System32",
13) Scroll down and search for notepad file. Finally select "notepad", Click on Ok button,
14) You will be taken back to "Create Shortcut" window, there you click on "Next" button,
15) You will be displayed with a new Window named "Select a Folder to place this shortcut in:",
16) There click on Accessories, (by doing this Notepad will be located under Accessories)
17) You will be displayed with a new Window named "Select a Title for the Program", just click on Finish button,
18) Then again click on Ok button of the new Window,
19) Again click on Ok button on the new Window,

2 comments:

Anonymous said...
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thanks

Diana said...
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Thank you! These steps put my notepad back into my Accessories folder. I was getting annoyed using WordPad for copy and paste stuff. However, between Steps 1 & 2, you should add "Click on Properties, and in the window that opens, click the Start Menu tab on top."

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