Give your Start menu the power it deserves.
The average user may not have any reason to access Disk Management or the Device Manager on a consistent basis. But for the people that like to tinker, adding power shortcuts to the Start Menu makes geeking-out much faster. The shortcuts we’ll be adding today are for Disk Management, the Device Manager and Computer Management. But feel free to add whichever utility you use most often, such as a shortcut to the command line utility.

For Computer Management, right-click the desktop and select New, then Shortcut. Type compmgmt.msc in the dialog box and click Next. In the next box, give it a proper name, like Computer management and click Finish.

Do the same for Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) and Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) and you should end up with three new icons on the desktop. Next, simply right-click each and select “pin to Start Menu.”

The one draw back to this is you have to keep these shortcuts somewhere and not remove them or the Start menu shortcuts might not work. We pulled the examples above directly from the Windows\System32 folder. If you navigate to that folder, you can right-click any of those programs and choose to pin them to the start menu, as well. Which would mean you would not have extra shortcuts on your desktop. We only showed you how to create the shortcuts in case you did not know how and wanted to add items from other programs to the start menu.