Vista Exporer Favourites – CUSTOMIZE

FAVORITE LINKS in Vista Explorer – How to ADD and REMOVE them.

The Explorer Favourites Menu is located in the Top Left-Hand side of the Windows Vista Explorer Window:

The Favorite Links menu is in fact simply a folder that holds shortcuts. Once you get the idea, it’s quite easy to add or remove items that are in fact shortcuts to that list of link

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Adding one or more CUSTOM links to the Favorite Links

  • Open Windows Explorer
  • In the Favorite links menu right-click an empty spot and select Open Favorites Links Folder. - A new window will appear, and when you look closely at it you’ll see that it is in fact the C:\Users\USERNAME\Links folder.
  • Right-click an empty spot in the right pane of the window and select New > Shortcut
  • In the “Browse for files or folders” window browse to the folder of your choice.
  • Give the new shortcut a name of your choice, then press Finish.

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Hiding one or more links from the Favorite Links

To hide one or more link from the Favorite links menu you can simply right-click that link and select Remove Link.

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