Works for me. You could, however, make your own toolbar via right click on
the Taskbar > New Toolbar out of any folder in "My Documents" or elsewhere
which would act much the same.

HTH,
ern.

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
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> I've always kept my data separate in a "Data" folder on D:.
>
> Right now, within "Data" I've got my Windows "Favorites" folder -
> the one that renders with a five-pointed star.
>
> It's finally dawned on me that, to me, "Favorites" are really
> "Data" - and all the subdirectories in "Favorites" really belong
> in "Data".
>
> E.g. Right now in "Data", I've got a directory called
> "Generators" that contains a couple of .PDFs about home-use
> generators. But I've also got a "Data\Favorites\Generators"
> folder that contains links to various web pages concerning
> home-use generators.
>
>
> Clearly (to me, at least) the two folders sb one.
>
>
> My instinct is to simply make "Favorites" my data directory, move
> all the former "Data" folders into it - combining the contents of
> like-named folders - and then move "Favorites" up the root of D:
> and delete the now-empty "Data" directory.... and, from now on,
> regard "Favorites" as the place where I keep all my "data".
>
>
> Sounds simple to me, but I've got this little yellow sticky on my
> terminal at work that says:
>
> ----------------------------------
> "The important things are simple.
> The simple things are hard.
> The easy path is mined."
> ----------------------------------
>
> So: any gotchas laying (lying?) in wait for me if/when I do the
> aforementioned?
> --
> PeteCresswell