The so called Places Bar is a sidebar on the right side of Open and Save dialogs in Windows and Office that provide the user with a way to access specific folders faster. It shows My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer and My Network Places by default and there is no apparent way to change or edit the default places with some that make more sense. A user without a network connection would probably like to see a different folder in the Places Bar instead of the My Network Places link.
Users can either edit the five quick links in the Windows Registry which is not as trivial as it sounds or use a application like Places Bar Editor (via Lifehacker) to edit them comfortably. The software is compatible to Windows ME, 2000, XP and Windows Vista and supports the (different) Places Bar of Microsoft Office, or precisely Microsoft Office 2007, 2003, 2000 and XP, which is different from the standard Places Bar.
The software displays the five places that can be changed in tabs. One for Windows and one for Microsoft Office. The user has the choice to pick a system folder, like Desktop, Send To or Printers or chose a folder from his system that will be placed as a quick link in the bar. Please note that all five locations will change even if you only edit some of them. By default all are shown as Desktop links and you could end up with one custom link and four links to your Desktop if you changed only the first quick link manually.
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[...] already covered one application that can edit that Places Bar in Windows but it’s never bad to have additional applications available that can do the same [...]
Thank you for this great application! Been looking for ages for some application like this. I never used the other “places” except my desktop. THX!
why the hell is it always so damned hard and more often impossible to decypher the idiotically unidenified ass wekk as arbitrarily named crap in windows (eg; google places bar and I defy you to ever find a damned sshot showing what the fuck it is)?