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#  Tip of the Week: Adding More Utility to the Windows Taskbar

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  Wednesday, 07 August 2019

## Using the Taskbar to Highlight Folders

If you’re like most users today, a large amount of the work you are responsible for only requires you to access certain areas of the company’s storage, which can quickly make navigating there a frustrating inconvenience. Fortunately, there is a Taskbar feature that can streamline this process considerably.

**You can add direct links to folders (and their contents) to the Taskbar.**

Here’s how it’s done:

- **Right-click** any unused space in the Taskbar to open a menu of options
- Hover over **Toolbars** and select **New toolbar…**
- Find your desired folder in the directory that appears, select it, and click **Select Folder**

That folder should now appear in your Taskbar, with a list of its contents quickly and easily accessible to you.

## Using the Taskbar to Quickly Access Websites

If your responsibilities more frequently require you to be on the Internet, you might find it useful to have a quick-access URL field in your Taskbar, enabling you to skip the step where you have to open a browser before beginning to navigate to a site.

- Again, access your Taskbar options by **right-clicking** in any unused space
- Again, hover over **Toolbars**, this time selecting **Address**

A URL field will have appeared in your Taskbar. Typing a URL into it and pressing **Enter** will open that website in your default browser.

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