Solved Windows 7-Library avoidance

[Aardvarkly]

I have trolled through countless threads about Libraries unable to find a simple answer. I do not find Libraries useful in the least and wish to remove them or at least hide them from view. I would like to have a shortcut in the taskbar that will take me with one click to a place I will call Documents. In this place I create a group of folders. I will create files or download items directly into these folders giving them names that makes sense to me. This system has worked well for me in XP and was easy to set up. In several installations of W7 I seem to be stuck with Libraries that I don't want.

Is there an easy way to get rid? Or is this one more battle against Microsoft's insisting I do things their way?

Thanks in advance.

 

[file3456]

Try this:

Right click the Taskbar and select Toolbars | New toolbar. Now navigate to your downloads folder or what ever other folder you want in the Taskbar.


https://streamable.com/e/w8pnl2

 

[Aardvarkly]

I have just tried your instruction and I can't make it do what I want to do. I think I have not explained my problem in an understandable way. With my original method, as used in XP, I had a folder symbol down on the taskbar. One click on that took me directly to a page where all my files could be accessed, each in a folder of my choosing. ie. one for tax stuff, one for photos, one for addresses, one for computer related things, etc. One click on any of these folders would take me to where I wanted to go.

At the moment I have a folder image on the task bar but when I click on it I get a page titled "Libraries" with another folder icon called Documents. Clicking on that takes me to another page titled "Documents Library" showing a folder called "Documents". Clicking that one takes me to a page with all the folders I wanted to access. So at the moment it takes me three clicks to get to my destination. I am thinking that somewhere in my initial installation I have gone wrong setting something up. I have to admit I have deleted "Libraries" at every opportunity but they don't stay deleted.

Thanks again but this seems to be yet another thing that is above my pay grade to solve. I'm not young enough to do battle with Microsoft's later offerings so sticking with the devil I am familiar with.

 

[file3456]

Yes, I'm well aware of that libraries crap and thus is why I wrote and did a video for you showing you how to do EXACTLY what you want. It does work, but you need to know how to do it. I'll try again.


1) Right click the Task Bar.

2) Now select the option called "Toolbars."

3) Then you select the option "New toolbar."

4) Now this is where you navigate to the folder you want pinned to the Task Bar for quick access.

May need to watch the video again very carefully. It's not hard at all.

 

[Aardvarkly]

I thank you again for trying to help. You are right. It is easy enough to get a folder onto the task bar, or in my case the word "Documents" but clicking this just produces a long list of items on my actual Documents page to be accessed by yet another click. What I am trying to achieve is a "one click" access to the place my documents are kept. All spread out in rows ready to open, not a long list popped up from the task bar. I guess it is the same thing really but it is an arrangement I have had since W98/ME/XP/and my first installation of W7.
I will mark this as Solved to avoid confusing other members.