Easily access "favorite" folders in Windows Explorer?

[Guest Rick]

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]

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]

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)]

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.