GPO - to Hide Libraries and Network from Windows Explorer Windows 7. Windows Server. But I have recently deployed windows 7 desktops and my users are having issues with the libraries feature and I needed to find a way to disable it across the domain with group policy. Long story short is that all of which I tried from forum advice did not.
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In Windows XP, I had several folder saved as favorites in Windows Explorer, and could do Alt+A, 'letter' to quickly navigate to a favorite starting with 'letter' (for example, with a favorite named 'logs' pointing to C:blahblahlogs, Alt+A,L would immediately take me to the logs directory).
In Windows 7, they removed the Favorites menu bar, but added a listing in the navigation pane.
I've been trying to find a simple keyboard shortcut to quickly navigate to frequently used locations. Alt+D,F4 is the best I've found so far, but it requires actually looking through a list.
paradroidI've been trying to find a simple keyboard shortcut to quickly navigate to frequently used locations. Alt+D,F4 is the best I've found so far, but it requires actually looking through a list.
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You could try adding your Favorites to the Start Menu (right click Start Button > Properties > Start Menu tab > Customise).
Then you have to press WinKey, Right Arrow, F, Right Arrow, to start navigating your Favorites.
It's not ideal, but you could use some macro software, like AutoHotKey or AutoIT, to map it to a single key combo.
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Another solution that works for me:
- Pin Windows Explorer to the taskbar in the left-most position.
- Pin your favorite folders to Windows Explorer.
- Press ⊞ Win + Alt + 1 (or other numbers according to the location of your pinned Windows Explorer on the taskbar).
- Press the first letter of your favorite letter followed by Enter.
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If you are happy for them to open in a new Explorer window then I highly recommend AutoHotkey. It's very powerful but fairly easy to use.
Using a script created by AutoHotkey you can map nearly any key combination to open any program or file/folder.
For example, I have Ctrl + Alt + M set to open My Documents and ⊞ Win + F to open or switch to Firefox.
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Where are My Favorites Windows 10? You can find it after follow Add the Favorites folder to the Windows 10 Start Menu. You need to check if you are able to get the Favorites folder in Start Menu. First, go to Settings > Personalization > Start > Choose which folder appears on Start menu > Personal folder > Exit the settings and Now open Personal folder from the Start Menu and Open the favorite folder.
How to Add the Favorites Folder to the Windows 10 Start Menu
Favorites have been a part of the Windows Shell system as far back as the first version of Internet Explorer and has been integrated deeply, also Favorites has been a quick access location on Windows 10 though is not available by default. But you can still enable it, so in this article I will show you how to do it. Let’s follow step by step in below.
- Press Windows key + R
- Type: %userprofile%
- Hit Enter on your keyboard
- Right click Favorites folder and click Pin to Start
- This will add Favorites tile to the Start menu, see picture in below.
- Select it with your left mouse button and drag to recent items menu shortcut list then release.
- Favorites will be added to the Start menu.
If you use Internet Explorer, you can Press Alt + C > Favorites (tab) and quickly access your favorites that way or press Alt on your keyboard > click Favorites to access them.
I also will give you alternative tutorial, How to Add the Favorites Folder to the Windows 10 Start Menu
- Press Windows key + R.
- Type: %userprofile%.
- Hit Enter.
- Right click and Copy your Favorites Folder.
- Paste it on the desktop.
- Rename it Favorites 2.
- Go back in the User folder.
- Open Favorites again.
- Open the Favorites Bar folder.
- Drag and drops Favorites 2 folder in there.
- Right click the Taskbar > Toolbar > Links.
- This will enable the Links menu on the Taskbar.
- Click it and you should see something similar but even quicker.
For more information, go to Get Help with File Explorer in Windows 10