How To: Speed up folder access with Windows Vista’s “Favorites”
If you open up any Windows Explorer instances in Vista, you’ll notice that Microsoft have make the Favorites more visible:
Windows Vista has made the Favorites folder more visible by default
You can actually add links to your own frequently used folders to speed up access. To do this, browse to the parent of the folder that you wanted to add (in my case, I’ll browse to my “D:” drive, since I’m going to add the “Software Library” folder:
Browse to the parent of the folder that you wanted to add
Now, it doesn’t get easier than this, just drag the folder into the “Favorite Links” section!
Drag the folder that you wanted to add to the Favorite Links
And you’re done!
It’s as simple as that!
Repeat this on all the folders that you want, and you can access them from any folder in no time!
Oh Lord. I didn’t notice that I could do that. Oh Lord.
Call myself an IT enthusiast without knowing this T_T. Thanks for the tip!
Yeah took me a while before I discovered that by *cough* accident *cough*. Glad it helped!
Nice tip. Very easy and straight forward but useful. Now I can go to my folders more quickly. :)
Caught it on the very first day. Maybe because I’m used to Finder in OS X.
Explorer’s sidebar seems flakier in comparison and I’d wish they make the icon slightly bigger; It’s freakishly small!