adding expandable shortcuts to folders on XP Start Menu?

[metaed]

In Windows 2000, it was possible to add expandable folders to the Start
Menu by creating shortcuts to the folders. If you hovered over the
shortcuts you'd get a submenu of the folder contents, just as you can
with My Documents and others.

In Windows XP I have not been able to add expandable folders to the
Start Menu. I can create shortcuts to folders there, but I do not get a
submenu of the folder contents when I hover over them.

Where am I going wrong?

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

Don't use the New -> Shortcut wizard to create it. Open one window to your start menu folder,
another to the parent of the target folder. Right-click & drag the folder to the Start Menu folder
& choose 'Create Shortcut' when you release the mouse button.