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Make The Windows XP Favorites Menu More Useful In
Windows Explorer.
Your favorite menu just got better at dealing with your
Favorites. This shortcut will let you cut through the maze of folders on your
Windows XP machine running Windows Explorer. Note: This tip applies to both
Windows XP Professional and Home.
Similar to Internet Explorer, the Favorites menu in
Windows
XP appears in Windows Explorer. This makes it easy for you to access the
Internet from within Windows Explorer. However, it really serves no other
purpose in Windows Explorer—even though it has the potential to do so much more.
You can make
hard disk and
network navigation much easier
and more efficient if you use the Favorites menu as a place to keep shortcuts to
deeply nested folders on your hard disk, as well as to network drives you access
frequently. Doing so just takes a bit of rethinking about how you use and
organize the Favorites menu.
Here's how.
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Press [Windows]R to access the Run dialog box, type
Favorites in the Open text box, and click OK to open the Favorites folder
in Windows Explorer.
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Use the Make A New Folder command in the File And Folder
Tasks pane to create three new folders, naming them Internet, Local Folders,
and Network Folders
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Move all of your Internet links, except the folder
titled Links, into the newly created Internet folder.
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Navigate to some of the deeply nested folders on your
hard disk that you access frequently and use the Add To Favorites command on
the Favorites menu to create links in the Local Folders folder.
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Navigate to some of the network shares that you access
frequently and use the Add To Favorites command to create links in the Network
Folders folder.
Now, when you're in
Windows Explorer you can use the Local Folders and Network Folders shortcuts on
the Favorites menu to make quick work of your regular hard disk and network
navigation.
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