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That reminds me of the feature that windows 11 finally broke that I’ve loved since windows 98: quick launch toolbars.

You could put shortcuts in a folder somewhere, and them to the task bar as a quick launch toolbar. This would show each shortcut as a single-click launcher showing a small mini icon. You could then give the toolbar a name, and shrink it so every icon is hidden, which effectively turned it into a named menu.

I’d put all my game shortcuts in a folder, add it as a quick launch toolbar called “Games”, and it would basically give me a global menu to run a game whenever I wanted with 2 clicks.

I used this feature all the way from Windows 98 to Windows 10, until they finally broke it for no good reason in Windows 11.