Folder View adds recent and favorite folders to Windows Explorer

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Folder View adds recent and favorite folders to Windows Explorer

by Brad Linder May 19th 2008

Folder View is a free Windows utility that gives you quick access to the folders you use most often in Windows Explorer. You can add shortcuts for every folder in My Documents, or choose custom folders to add to the toolbar. We'd advise against selecting an entire drive, since you'll wind up with a toolbar several rows deep filled with folders. It sort of defeats the purpose of having shortcuts when it takes you five minutes to find the one you're looking for.

As Martin at gHacks points out, one of the most useful features of Folder View is the recent folders toolbar. If you've accidentally closed a folder that you want to recover, this feature can be a life saver. It's not quite as magical as the recover closed tab feature in Firefox, but it's actually more useful since you can also use the Recent folders button to access your most frequently used folders in a snap.

Folder View also shows up in your Windows download and upload dialog boxes, making it easy to keep your files organized if you like to store your downloaded files in several different directories.

Tags: favorites, folder-view, recent, windows-explorer

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

carlos gomez said 8:13AM on 5-22-2008

quiero probarlo y luego decidir en mis comentarios

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