Explorer Session from the Start Menu

To open the Explorer with a session on the Start Menu,

you can just right click on the START button and choose EXPLORE

Most avid windowers know that "Start | Settings | Taskbar | Start Menu Programs | Advanced..."
will start an Explorer session focused on the Start Menu directory.
This allows you to easily and quickly add/modify your Start menu.

To immediately access this Explorer session from the Start menu itself,

1. Open Explorer and open the Windows directory.
2. Right-drag EXPLORER.EXE to the desktop, then select "Create shortcut here."
3. Open the properties to this shortcut, select the Shortcut tab and add the following switches to the command line in Target: "/e,/root,c:\windows\Start Menu".
4. Double-click on the title of the shortcut and change it to "Configure Start Menu."
5. Open "Start | Settings | Taskbar | Start Menu Programs | Advanced..." and drag the shortcut just created into the window on the right.
6. This will place a configuration item in the first level of the Start Menu.

These command-line options will allow a similar Explorer session to be started with any folder as the root.