Favorites menu on desktop?

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Bob Newman

I love the option WinXP gives you to click the start button and choose a
selection from your favorites menu while off-line to logon right where you
want to go. Rather, I like the idea. I can't stand accessing the
subfolders & sliding the mouse to the right to choose another subfolder
etc., it seems the mouse is always going off the folder I want and it
collapses and I have to start all over. My question is this. While on-line
If you click the favorites icon it puts a window on the left of the screen
with your favorites more like links that you can just click on and not have
to worry about the "slide" effect. Is there a way to get that type of
set-up when I click the start menu? Or at least have it on the desktop?

Thanks in advance... Bob
 
try adding the links part of favorites on taskbar.
right-click taskbar and under toolbar find links.
also look at new toolbar and maybe add favorites
to the taskbar.
this will be a vertical menu similar to windows menu and
sliding mouse to find desired site.
 
If I understand you correctly you want me to add favorites to the links.
This is not what I want. I would like to access the complete list as it
would appear when I am on-line.

Bob
 
Bob, try searching for a folder called favorites (start>search for files and
folders) and when you find it (there may be more than one depending on the
number of users or whether you have reinstalled IE etc) right click on it
and create a desktop shortcut.

It's a normal folder, the favorites are just "Links".

A bonus is that you can click on the grey column headers to sort in more
ways.

HTH

Charlie
 
....
it seems the mouse is always going off the folder I want
and it collapses and I have to start all over.
Click to expand...

Try holding a Ctrl- key and click the folder item.
It may get the idea that you want it to stick longer.

Actually FWIW I hardly ever use my mouse for Favorites.
I use my keyboard instead. E.g. Ctrl-Esc,a,CursorRight,...
(If Ctrl-Esc wasn't such an ingrained habit I would probably
If you click the favorites icon it puts a window on the left of the screen
with your favorites more like links that you can just click on and not have
to worry about the "slide" effect. Is there a way to get that type of
set-up when I click the start menu?
Click to expand...

That is an Explorer bar. AFAIK you can only have them in IE or Windows
Explorer windows. Typically you use the Folders bar in a WE window but
there is nothing to stop you from pressing Ctrl-i etc. to replace that bar
with another. So for example you could if you wanted do this:
Win,Alt,Menu,x,Enter,Ctrl-i
(Note commas denote a pause where ellision, e.g. - or +, might be expected.)


....
have it on the desktop?
Click to expand...

Not sure what you are thinking of here. You could Right-click
the Favorites Start menu item and select Send to... Desktop
That would let you have the same effect as Win,a,Menu,O
by doubleclicking on a Desktop shortcut. If you modified the
shortcut by giving it a keyboard shortcut you could launch it
from wherever you wanted.

If you are thinking that the Desktop is just a special view using Explorer
and so why can't we have an Explorer bar associated with it too,
then I don't know. I think it would interfere with the Start menu itself
too much unless the Desktop was assumed to be in Fullscreen mode
and the Explorer bar was unpinned by default in Fullscreen mode.
(That latter feature seems to have only been available in Win 9x.)
Even then I think that that there would be complaints about the Explorer bar
flying in unwanted if users moved their mouse too close to the left edge
of the Desktop. It certainly wouldn't be as intuitively obvious as having
a Favorites submenu in the Start menu and I think just as tricky to use.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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I agree very much.

Bob

Robert Aldwinckle said:
...

Try holding a Ctrl- key and click the folder item.
It may get the idea that you want it to stick longer.

Actually FWIW I hardly ever use my mouse for Favorites.
I use my keyboard instead. E.g. Ctrl-Esc,a,CursorRight,...
(If Ctrl-Esc wasn't such an ingrained habit I would probably


That is an Explorer bar. AFAIK you can only have them in IE or Windows
Explorer windows. Typically you use the Folders bar in a WE window but
there is nothing to stop you from pressing Ctrl-i etc. to replace that bar
with another. So for example you could if you wanted do this:
Win,Alt,Menu,x,Enter,Ctrl-i
(Note commas denote a pause where ellision, e.g. - or +, might be expected.)

Not sure what you are thinking of here. You could Right-click
the Favorites Start menu item and select Send to... Desktop
That would let you have the same effect as Win,a,Menu,O
by doubleclicking on a Desktop shortcut. If you modified the
shortcut by giving it a keyboard shortcut you could launch it
from wherever you wanted.

If you are thinking that the Desktop is just a special view using Explorer
and so why can't we have an Explorer bar associated with it too,
then I don't know. I think it would interfere with the Start menu itself
too much unless the Desktop was assumed to be in Fullscreen mode
and the Explorer bar was unpinned by default in Fullscreen mode.
(That latter feature seems to have only been available in Win 9x.)
Even then I think that that there would be complaints about the Explorer bar
flying in unwanted if users moved their mouse too close to the left edge
of the Desktop. It certainly wouldn't be as intuitively obvious as having
a Favorites submenu in the Start menu and I think just as tricky to use.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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