Windows Explorer difference?

[Paul H]

I have W7 on two Acer laptops. The older one was a new W7 install. The
newer one was an upgrade from the Vista that it came with. Both Home
Premium. When I start Windows Explorer, the new one has, under the top
"Favorites" heading, 5 items. The old one only has the bottom 3 items. The
top 2 - "Recently changed" and "Public" are missing. How can I turn them
on? TIA, Paul

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:22:43 -0600, Paul H wrote:

> I have W7 on two Acer laptops. The older one was a new W7 install. The
> newer one was an upgrade from the Vista that it came with. Both Home
> Premium. When I start Windows Explorer, the new one has, under the top
> "Favorites" heading, 5 items. The old one only has the bottom 3 items. The
> top 2 - "Recently changed" and "Public" are missing. How can I turn them
> on? TIA, Paul

Did you try looking at the right-click menu on Favorites?

It's pretty self-explanatory.

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[Paul H]

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
news:1qthhna2b4f1.c5s0n3jkgafz.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:22:43 -0600, Paul H wrote:
>
>> I have W7 on two Acer laptops. The older one was a new W7 install. The
>> newer one was an upgrade from the Vista that it came with. Both Home
>> Premium. When I start Windows Explorer, the new one has, under the top
>> "Favorites" heading, 5 items. The old one only has the bottom 3 items.
>> The
>> top 2 - "Recently changed" and "Public" are missing. How can I turn them
>> on? TIA, Paul
>
> Did you try looking at the right-click menu on Favorites?
>
> It's pretty self-explanatory.
>
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> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

Not obvious to me. Do I have to manually find and add the missing items?
What else is different? Maybe the old laptop thinks I'm a newbie and the
new laptop thinks I'm an intermediate or expert?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:16:17 -0600, Paul H wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
> news:1qthhna2b4f1.c5s0n3jkgafz.dlg@40tude.net...
>> On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:22:43 -0600, Paul H wrote:
>>
>>> I have W7 on two Acer laptops. The older one was a new W7 install. The
>>> newer one was an upgrade from the Vista that it came with. Both Home
>>> Premium. When I start Windows Explorer, the new one has, under the top
>>> "Favorites" heading, 5 items. The old one only has the bottom 3 items.
>>> The
>>> top 2 - "Recently changed" and "Public" are missing. How can I turn them
>>> on? TIA, Paul
>>
>> Did you try looking at the right-click menu on Favorites?
>>
>> It's pretty self-explanatory.
>>
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>> Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
>
> Not obvious to me. Do I have to manually find and add the missing items?
> What else is different? Maybe the old laptop thinks I'm a newbie and the
> new laptop thinks I'm an intermediate or expert?

For instance: "Add current location to Favorites" means add current
location to favorites. Go to a folder, then do that and it's there.

Or you could drag a folder from the right-hand pane into the favorites.

Press delete on a favorite folder to delete it.

Read Help.

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