Add "My Computer" to the Taskbar in Windows 7

We allways like to have the fastest access possible to our day to day folders on our Windows desktop, this usually means putting something onto the Windows taskbar if possible. In this article I am going to show you how you can add the Computer menu as a folder on the Windows 7 taskbar for the quickest access to your Computer drives. Actually, you could also use this tip for any folder in your computer you want.

To add the the "My Computer" as a folder to the Windows 7 taskbar follow the steps bellow:

1. Right-click on the taskbar and click the Toolbars menu, and then click on New Toolbar.

2. Here you can choose any folder that you want, in this example we’ll select the My Computer icon and then click on Select Folder.

3. Next, here you can see the My Computer folder is right there on the Windows 7 taskbar. If you click on the little arrow it will pop up and let you browse through all of your computer drives.

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