Yup, so the feature’s still available, it’s just hidden in the last place someone is going to look, the context menu for individual Favorites.Īh well, now you know where it is. However I now have a problem with IE11.I cannot add to favorites. I have gone to 'Computer Configuration-Preferences-Windows Settings-Shortcuts', created a new shortcut, set it to create or replace, Filled in all the pertinent information, selected All Users Explorer Favorites. Instead, right-click on any of your Favorites and look at what’s in the context menu! Cannot add to favorites - posted in Windows 7: I have yesterday done a clean install of windows 7,allowed it to update and configure. I am trying to create a Group Policy that adds a DFS location to the favorites in Windows Explorer.

You can click and drag to reorder Favorites, delete them, create sub-folders (which give you sub-menus on Favorites, quite handy).īut where’s that darn Sort button? It doesn’t exist. To organize and manage your Favorites list, click on “Add to favorites” on the top right (yes, it’s totally counter-intuitive): It’s in the order that I saved them as favorites, so “Bing” was first, and “Syfy” was last. By default, there are only three folders which include Desktop, Downloads and Recent. You can see my set of bookmarks, and it’s in random order. The Favorites folder in Windows 7 and 8 Explorers is a quick way to organize and access commonly used folders. You’ll want to click on the star icon, which gets you to the Favorites menu: To start, open up Internet Explorer and look on the top right: In any case, I’ll show you how to sort your Favorites in window view but it works in both.

Or perhaps none of them actually surf the Web and bookmark favorite sites, so it’s never an issue? Maybe in Redmond they have secret third-party tools that help them manage their Favorites. 2 Type (or copy and paste) appdata into the Run Box, then press the Enter key. Either way, turns out that the Favorites management area hasn’t changed a huge amount, you just have to know that Microsoft decided that sorting options wasn’t important enough to warrant an actual button in the edit window. Follow these steps to add your favorite folder (s) to ‘File Explorer’ on your own Windows 10 PC: 1 Press the Windows + R key combination to open the Run box. If you’re running Microsoft Windows 8 or Win8.1, odds are quite good that you are also running Internet Explorer 11, either in “window” mode (the standard interface where it’s a window on the Desktop) or in the full-screen “Metro” mode (where it takes over the entire screen).

Windows 7 add to favorites