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The Windows Taskbar offers several built-in toolbars. You can enable a toolbar to type a web address, a toolbar for website links, and a toolbar to display the shortcuts from your desktop. The advantage of such a toolbar is that you tin chop-chop admission specific files, pages, and other items right from your Windows Taskbar.

You can become beyond the born Windows Taskbar toolbars past creating your ain toolbars. You can devise a new toolbar past adding an existing folder, such every bit Documents, Downloads, or Pictures. You can likewise create a new folder with select apps, files, shortcuts, and other items. Let's get through the steps.

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To see and activate one of the built-in toolbars, right-click the Windows Taskbar and movement to the entry for Toolbars. The flyout bill of fare displays the available toolbars y'all can enable. At a minimum, you should see toolbars for Accost, Links, and Desktop. Depending on the brand of your computer, y'all may see additional toolbars added by the manufacturer (Figure A).

Figure A

Select the toolbar for Address, and a field appears on the Toolbar in which you can type a spider web address or a File Explorer folder proper name to open that location. Select the toolbar for Links. Open up your browser and elevate a URL onto the Links button. You can also open File Explorer and elevate a specific binder to the Links push. At present, click on the double pointer next to the Links button, and you can open whatever of the web pages or folders you lot dragged there. Select the toolbar for Desktop. Click on the double pointer next to the Desktop button to access any of the icons and shortcuts on your Desktop (Figure B).

Figure B

The built-in toolbars are helpful and handy, but the real ability comes from creating your ain toolbar. To try this, right-click the Taskbar, move to Toolbars, and select New Toolbar (Figure C).

Figure C

A File Manager window appears. You lot can browse to and select a specific binder that you want to add as a toolbar. You tin cull one of the default folders, such as Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, or Videos. You tin choose your own user profile binder. You lot can also choose a binder from the Quick Access section. Choose the binder y'all want and click the button to Select Folder (Effigy D).

Figure D

Click the double arrow next to the push for your folder to access the contents (Figure Due east).

Figure E

Y'all can create your own folder with files, apps, and other content of your choice. Open File Explorer and create a new folder–give it a name of your choosing. Then, drag or re-create the items you desire to identify in this folder (remember to re-create them as shortcuts). Yous may cull oft-used Word documents and Excel spreadsheets, pictures and PDFs, and exe files to mutual applications (Effigy F). Afterwards you're done, you may desire to rename the shortcuts with more than user-friendly names.

Effigy F

Shut File Explorer. Right-click the Taskbar, motion to Toolbars, and select New Toolbar. Browse to the folder y'all only created. Click the Select Folder push. Click the double-arrow next to the button for your new toolbar. Y'all should come across all the files you added to the binder (Figure Thou).

Figure G

Finally, to remove a toolbar you lot added, right-click the Taskbar, move to Toolbars, and uncheck the toolbar you lot want to remove (Figure H).

Figure H