How to add items to Favorites Windows 7 Explorer folder

Feb

2009

How to add items to Favorites Windows 7 Explorer folder

Among its innovations, Windows 7 has got a Favorites list on the left side of Windows Explorer. Such a feature gives the user a quick list of the most used locations on the computer. Furthermore, the Favorites list contains by default the following links: Desktop, Downloads and Recent Places. If you want to add more items to the Favorites list such as folders, libraries etc, here is a quick and easy trick to apply.

Browse to the item (such as your drive, folder or libraries) you want to add to Favorites.
Please, make sure that the full path of such an item is fully visible and correct on the Address Bar.
Right-click on Favorites (right on the bar containing the yellow star).
A menu should appear. Select Add Location in Browser to Favorites.
Done!
Alternatively, to make things easier, you can just drag-and-drop a folder or a library or whatever you want to the Favorites, to automatically add a link to it.

If instead you want to delete an item from Favorites, here is another simple trick.

Right-click on the item in the Favorites.
A menu should appear. Select Delete.
That’s it!

Tags: trick, Win7

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6 Comments to “How to add items to Favorites Windows 7 Explorer folder”

chuck Says:
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 am

Why won’t my favorites come on when I clik on them in my favorites list ?
Rob Says:
January 10th, 2010 at 4:13 pm

would be great, but you can bookmark home directories of ftp site you can only bookmark subfolders of the ftp site
Max Says:
January 25th, 2010 at 3:39 pm

This approach used to work for me but it has somehow stopped working. I can see the starred Favorites bar but it won’t expand and I can’t add any items to it. Also, the right pane is blank if I click on Favorites even though it is initially populated when I first open Win Explorer 7.

Any ideas?
Matt Says:
March 13th, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Thanks for the information – it’s exactly what I was looking for. I have now deleted some unwanted items from my favourites list and will probably even add some at some stage in the future. Cheers
Robert Says:
April 9th, 2010 at 8:54 pm

I have the same problem as Max. I also have no right click options for adding anything to Favorites. I can see everything I’ve tried to add by going under Start-Computer-Favorites, but they’re not there in the Favorites tab.
Freda Says:
May 30th, 2010 at 9:37 am

please tell me a simple way to delete multiple items from my windows 7 favorites, thanks,Freda