Guest Rick Posted June 27, 2008 Posted June 27, 2008 There are a lot of folders on my hard drive and network that I would like super-quick access to when in Windows Explorer rather than endless drilling-down to subfolders and different drives. I've been playing around with different ways to do this. I wish Windows Explorer automatically displayed a menu of your "frequently-used folders" the way the File menu of Windows apps displays your most frequently-used files. Is there some Windows Explorer add-on (not likely!) that would allow this? Or ... how do other folks do this? Another thought: I wish the Favorites menu in Windows Explorer could be kept distinct from the Favorites menu of Internet Explorer; that way WE could display your favorite folders and IE could display your favorite web sites. Anyway, any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Guest Big_Al Posted June 27, 2008 Posted June 27, 2008 Re: Easily access "favorite" folders in Windows Explorer? Rick wrote: > There are a lot of folders on my hard drive and network that I would > like super-quick access to when in Windows Explorer rather than endless > drilling-down to subfolders and different drives. I've been playing > around with different ways to do this. I wish Windows Explorer > automatically displayed a menu of your "frequently-used folders" the way > the File menu of Windows apps displays your most frequently-used files. > Is there some Windows Explorer add-on (not likely!) that would allow > this? Or ... how do other folks do this? > > Another thought: I wish the Favorites menu in Windows Explorer could be > kept distinct from the Favorites menu of Internet Explorer; that way WE > could display your favorite folders and IE could display your favorite > web sites. > > Anyway, any thoughts on this would be appreciated. You can make shortcut to folders. Either on the desktop as individual or you can put a folder of shortcuts to folders in your start menu. I have about 5 or so folder, photos, downloads, documentation (pdf's), music and all are shortcut links on my desktop in the upper left. Even make cute Icons for them with icofx, a free icon editor. http://icofx.ro/ Its crude but works if you can't find anything else.
Guest Bob I Posted June 27, 2008 Posted June 27, 2008 Re: Easily access "favorite" folders in Windows Explorer? R-click the taskbar, Toolbars, New toolbar, Make new folder, call it folder favorites, put shortcuts to folders in it. Rick wrote: > There are a lot of folders on my hard drive and network that I would > like super-quick access to when in Windows Explorer rather than endless > drilling-down to subfolders and different drives. I've been playing > around with different ways to do this. I wish Windows Explorer > automatically displayed a menu of your "frequently-used folders" the way > the File menu of Windows apps displays your most frequently-used files. > Is there some Windows Explorer add-on (not likely!) that would allow > this? Or ... how do other folks do this? > > Another thought: I wish the Favorites menu in Windows Explorer could be > kept distinct from the Favorites menu of Internet Explorer; that way WE > could display your favorite folders and IE could display your favorite > web sites. > > Anyway, any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
Guest John John (MVP) Posted June 27, 2008 Posted June 27, 2008 Re: Easily access "favorite" folders in Windows Explorer? Just create a folder then put shortcuts to the other folders inside this folder? John Rick wrote: > There are a lot of folders on my hard drive and network that I would > like super-quick access to when in Windows Explorer rather than endless > drilling-down to subfolders and different drives. I've been playing > around with different ways to do this. I wish Windows Explorer > automatically displayed a menu of your "frequently-used folders" the way > the File menu of Windows apps displays your most frequently-used files. > Is there some Windows Explorer add-on (not likely!) that would allow > this? Or ... how do other folks do this? > > Another thought: I wish the Favorites menu in Windows Explorer could be > kept distinct from the Favorites menu of Internet Explorer; that way WE > could display your favorite folders and IE could display your favorite > web sites. > > Anyway, any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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