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RSSTip of the week – 3rd July 2009
Jul 3
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desktop, files, windows
[Windows Tip]
Tired of clicking your way through explorer windows to get to your files? Want an easier way to navigate your hard drive? Well read on…
If you follow these steps, you can access anything on your hard drive via a simple system of nested drop down menus (much like the Start -> Programs menu). Accessing files this way involves no clicking, just simply gliding your mouse along.
- Right click on your taskbar and Un-tick “Lock the taskbar”
- Right click on your taskbar again
- Go into the “Toolbars” sub-menu
- Tick the “Desktop” option
- Right click on the Desktop toolbar and select “Show Title”
- Drag the “Desktop” toolbar grip all the way to the left until you have the Desktop toolbar adjacent to the Star button (you will have to move any other toolbars you may be using, such as QuickLaunch)
- Drag the grip of whichever toolbar is immediately to the right of the Desktop toolbar to the left. Do this until all the Desktop toolbar icons are hidden and you can only see the Desktop toolbar title.
- Right click on the taskbar and select “Lock the taskbar”
Now you should see a “>>” symbol next to the word “Desktop” on your taskbar. Clicking this will give you a menu of everything in your Desktop. Going into the “My Computer” sub-menu gives you all of your drives, which in turn gives you the content of each drive in successive sub-menus, and so on for sub-directories of each drive.
Yeah, this was a complicated one, but it’s really worth it with the time you can save accessing files this way. Feel free to post questions, if there’s any confusion I might be talked into making a video of this.
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