This little tweak is really helpfull if you happen to have many windows open and would like to access a hard drive on your computer quickly. Sure, you could hit the left windows key and M and all windows become minimized but you still have to double click the my computer icon and the hard drive icon before you are there – that is if you have my computer on your desktop at all.
To use this tweak you will have to do the following: Right click on the free space in your taskbar and select Toolbars > New Toolbar from the menu. Browse to My Computer and hit ok. That’s all there is to do. From now on a My Computer icon is available in the taskbar just to the left side of the system tray. Left clicking on My Computer opens a list of all drives that are connected to your computer at the moment and a link to the control panel.
You can add other links besides the My Computer one, for example you could add on to all items that are currently available on your desktop, to itunes, links and even single folders can be added to it.
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Simple, yet useful.
I still prefer a simple link via the quick launch bar. It doesnt take up as much room, and you dont lose your left click abilities, like “manage my computer”
How about just using Windows+E to open Windows Explorer (My Computer)?
i have used this trick while ago. it really useful if you too lazy to double click your my computer icon on the desktop. :)
well the task bar “hack” makes it possible to access the files faster than using the normal way..
If all you’re trying to do is simply get to My Computer, why would you not just simply hit the Windows key and the letter E?
Works just as fast.
Just a question.
absolutely brilliant stuff…appreciated!!
Thaks for this
Cheers