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Hate IE? One Reason to Still Love Its Favorites - How To
by Lee Mathews Aug 25th 2008 at 5:00PM
I can't remember when was the last time I actually used Internet Explorer as the default browser on one of my Windows computers. After posting my how to on making a DIY launcher with Explorer, I realized that I wasn't using another feature that's been part of Windows for ages: the favorites menu.
Most of us look at the menu, see all the factory links (like Windows Update, Windows Media, etc) and forget something: you can add local programs, drives, and folders to your favorites as well.
Why bother? Well, instead of using an app like Folder Guide you may just want to use the features Windows has already given you to work with.
Most of us look at the menu, see all the factory links (like Windows Update, Windows Media, etc) and forget something: you can add local programs, drives, and folders to your favorites as well.
Why bother? Well, instead of using an app like Folder Guide you may just want to use the features Windows has already given you to work with.
Since the Favorites menu appears on any explorer pane with the standard menus, why not add things like your downloads, documents, portable apps, c:\windows\fonts, or anything else you use on a daily basis?
Because of the number of apps I download and demo, I dropped in links to appwiz.cpl and my ccleaner.exe /auto to clean up my temp files. It's a lot easier than trudging through my folders to get at them.
Customize your start menu to display your favorites as well, and you've got a single location to make navigating your directories less bothersome.
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cicom3nd3z said 6:28PM on 8-25-2008
Thanks for the ideea.
The best thing (for me) about Folder Guide is that I can go to my favorite folders inside the Save As dialog with just 2 clicks.
To achieve this with the Favorites menu I can add the customized Favorites menu to the Places Bar inside the Save As dialog (using TweakUI).
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lilmoder said 7:58PM on 8-25-2008
You can make a great toolbar from "Links" folder.
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2568/favouritessssszu4.png
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Xaro said 9:09PM on 8-25-2008
Or you could use xplorer2 and have favorites with hotkeys and much much more!
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dtma said 4:38AM on 8-26-2008
Explorer is dead. Total Commander with tabs lives. Just set it to remember a few important tabs (like Destkop, Music, Videos, Downloads, Program Files, Games, etc) and you no longer need the Exploder.
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Jorgesarcos said 5:34PM on 8-26-2008
Or you just could do the same thing on Firefox with IEtab... no need to turn back to IEtrash...
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NanceD said 11:17PM on 9-10-2008
I can't get IE 7 or 8 to work on my XP comp even though it works on another XP comp on my network?
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