{"id":11134,"date":"2016-05-19T19:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2016-05-19T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:06:13","slug":"pin-a-folder-to-your-windows-10-quick-access-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/pin-a-folder-to-your-windows-10-quick-access-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pin a Folder to Your Windows 10 Quick Access Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/quick-access1.png\" alt=\"InfoAve by Cloudeight\" width=\"167\" height=\"170\" \/>Pin a Folder to Your Windows 10 Quick Access Menu<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>One of the most under-rated and under-used features of Windows 10 is the Quick Access Menu. This is the menu that appears at the top left of the File Explorer (formerly known as Windows Explorer). It&#8217;s called Quick Access because it gives you quick access to your most often used folders.<\/p>\n<p>In the example below we placed a shortcut to one our most accessed folders on the Quick Access menu. While it does look like a folder in the Quick Access menu, it&#8217;s just a shortcut to the actual folder &#8211; wherever on your computer it may be. Quick Access gives you quick access to the folders you use most, but only if you use the Quick Access.<\/p>\n<p>To add a shortcut (to a folder) on the Quick Access menu so you can access that folder without navigating to it each time you want to access it, right-click on the folder you want to add to your Quick Access menu and choose &#8220;Pin to Quick Access&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style737\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/quick-access1.png\" alt=\"InfoAve by Cloudeight\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: We right-clicked a folder called &#8220;InfoAve-Images-2016&#8221; an chose &#8220;Pin to Quick Access&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2016\/quick-access2a.png\" alt=\"InfoAve by Cloudeight\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Above: We successfully pinned the folder &#8220;InfoAve-Images-2016&#8221; to the Quick Access menu. Notice the folder remains in its original location. The folder was not moved &#8211; a shortcut was created in the Quick Access menu to the folder we pinned.<\/p>\n<p>Use Quick Access &#8211; you&#8217;ll like it!<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pin a Folder to Your Windows 10 Quick Access Menu One of the most under-rated and under-used features of Windows 10 is the Quick Access Menu. This is the menu that appears at the top left of the File Explorer (formerly known as Windows Explorer). It&#8217;s called Quick Access because it gives you quick access to your most\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/pin-a-folder-to-your-windows-10-quick-access-menu\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11135,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions\/11135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}