Easily access "favorite" folders in Windows Explorer?

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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.
 
Rick said:
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.
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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.
 
R-click the taskbar, Toolbars, New toolbar, Make new folder, call it
folder favorites, put shortcuts to folders in it.
 
Just create a folder then put shortcuts to the other folders inside this
folder?

John
 
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