Quick Add Links to Windows Vista Explorer Favorite Links
If you've used Windows Vista for 5 minutes, you'll have seen the Favorite Links when browsing around your filesystem. What is annoying is that by default the favorite links doesn't include enough useful links.
Here's the default links list (I'm sure you have seen this)
If you want to add a new link to the links bar, all you have to do is drag and drop the folder onto the links bar. I'm going to add my Computer link to the menu:
Now, it shows up in the list:
Much better!
Managing your links is extremely simple. Just open up your home directory by clicking on your icon on the start menu. You'll see the LInks folder:
This folder contains all of the shortcuts to your favorite locations.
To remove an item from the list, you can either right-click the item and choose Remove Link, or just go to your Links folder and delete it from there.
Is there anyway that I can turn the damn Favorite links bar off. I hate it.
john,
It's easy, I wrote a post about it…
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....-explorer/
What is unfortunate is when removing the "Favorite Links" you also remove the Drive tree
Vista won't let me add a web link to any folders in favorites. It will only let me put them in the favorites link.???
It should be noted that you can add %TEMP% (default location: "C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Temp"), but you can't single-click it to open it in the current window. You can only open it by right-click=>open|explore, which opens it in a new window.
@Eric
Isn't the temp folder C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Temp? Thats the location I'm given when I type %temp% into the search bar. It also works fine in the Fave Links panel.
What i did is open the stupid 'fav' folder up (make it big and rt click in the freespace and delete everything in hte folder)
Truely hate the new style interface, and the most frustrating thing about it is the inability to truely disable it. Yes they let you change a few things but why are items like this soo complicated to alter, a simple 'view' > 'stupid dumb ass new interface' woud have sufficed for me. then grandma could have left it on, and i could have unclicked it.
and we dont want to remove the folder tree just the pointless ie shortcut crap to your own hard drive.
I LOVE the Links Panel - I used to have a whole heap of My Network Places shortcuts but now I just have links because they are accessible anyhwere. As a big tip if you have Vista and not Office 2007, Add your Links folder to the My Places Bar in word and Excel. Adding it to the My Places Bar means that you can access your Links shortcuts from anywhere within your Office 2003 apps.
somehow pictures was deleted from my favorite links, so I go to add it back and now it says pictures (1) or w/e…I rename it and it wont let me JUST use "pictures" I don't want a number by it….how do I fix this?
I'd like to stop seeing details like the date of the link in the Favorites in Windows Vista. It clutters up the screen and I can't read the rest of the list.
How can I tell it not to show a rollover of useless information like the date of the bookmark?
My favorite link on vista doesn't work properly it has link Empty and I can not add to it any link, however, it has some links on links folder at my home directory.
whenever i drag and drop it into the favorite links folder instead of under it saying "create link in links" it has one of those red circles with a diagnal cross going through it.
Most of short cuts in my Favorites will not launch. Even the right-click open option doesn't do anything. This is driving me crazy. Any suggestions?