How To: Add shortcuts to Vista ‘Favorite Links’ sidebar

Filed Under (HowTo, Tips) by Rajan Zachariah on 25-02-2008

How many times have you wished that you have an easy access to your most used folders? But alas! Windows generally shows only a default set of folders in the sidebar! And you thought you can never change that? See the below image then !!

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All you need to do is any one of the below mentioned step:

  1. Drag and Drop

    In Windows Explorer, go one level above the folder that you want in the sidebar and simply drag your mostly used folder onto the sidebar.image

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    As you can see from the above two images the folder is easily being moved and how the folder’s link is placed inside the sidebar.

  2. Edit the Links folder

    • Go to Run and type C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Links
    • Add/Remove shortcut of folders that you want to be there in the sidebar.(Remember: Shortcuts and not the folders itself!!!)
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