How to Pin Specific Settings to the Start Menu in Windows 10

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to pin specific settings to the Start menu in Windows 10. Windows 10 allows you to pin any tab from the Settings app to the Start menu. This is a great way to quickly access a setting you need to change often, for example, if you often like to change your desktop background image, pinning the respective settings to the Start menu is a good idea. This may seem like a feature limited to the Settings app, but Windows 10 still has the Control Panel where many settings are located. You are just as likely to need to access a particular Control Panel setting.
 

 

How to Pin Specific Settings to the Start Menu in Windows 10:

You can pin any section or page of the Settings app to the start menu. Fortunately, Microsoft makes it easy to pin pages from the Settings app.

Step 1: To get started, click on the Start button at the bottom left of your screen.
 

 
Step 2: Click on Settings.
 

 
 
Step 3: To pin an entire section from the main Settings app screen, right click on the section and select Pin to Start. In the following example, We are pinning the System section of the settings application.
 

 
Step 4: Windows will display a confirmation prompt. Click Yes to continue.
 

 
 
Step 5: To pin a specific settings app page, navigate to that page, right click on the page name appearing in the left pane and select Pin to Start. In the following example, We are pinning the Storage page.
 

 
Step 6: Windows will display a confirmation prompt. Click Yes to continue.
 

 
 
Once pinned, this is what it looks like in the Start menu. You can resize the thumbnail by right-clicking and selecting the Resize option.
 

 
That’s All!