How to hide Favorite links in Explorer and browse dialog boxes

Copyright © 2008 Ramesh Srinivasan
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Summary

In Windows Vista, folders and the open / save as dialogs contain the Favorite links in the left pane (navigation pane). The Favorite links in section makes it easy to change to a common folder or start a search that you previously saved. This is similar to the Places bar feature in pre-Vista systems.

This article tells how to hide the Favorite links folder in Explorer, and in the Open/Save as dialog boxes.

Hiding the Favorite links

To hide the Favorite links, hover the mouse pointer to the top border of the Folders pane. When the resize cursor (double-headed arrows) appears, drag the handle higher and cover the Favorite links area. Note the resize cursor in fig 1 below.

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The Favorite links area is now hidden. Use the same steps for Open and Save As dialog boxes separately.

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9 Responses to "How to hide Favorite links in Explorer and browse dialog boxes"

willyhoops

said this on 07 Feb 2007 3:05:22 AM PST

Thank you for this. It annoys me I have to waste 15 minutes searching on web how to do this. Microsoft's so called user friendly features are actually just making our lives worse.

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