Archive for January 6th, 2006

Customizing your My Places pane for Windows XP

I’ve always wondered if it was possible to customize the pane where when you either open or attempt to save a document, you’re given options to the left of the dialog box which has your desktop, my documents, and my computer and a few others.  Well, I often do not use any of the items listed there.  I started to research to find out if there was a way to customize it so that I could have my most used folders there instead of the ones that are there by default.  I found two sites, one is a MVP site that taught me how to do it with everything except for Office.  Then, on a link from said page, I found a link to the Microsoft page which entails how to customize Office 2003’s My Place pane.  Here are the links.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/PlacesBar.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=826214