Remember the My Places toolbar we looked at earlier? That’s the vertical strip of icons on the left hand side of the My Computer window. You can customize this window to reflect the file locations you use the most often.

Although you cannot remove or rename the four default shortcuts (My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, and My Network Places), you can move them up or down in the list by right-clicking on them, like this:

You can see that you can move the selected icon up or down in the list. You can also click Small Icons to change the size of the icons in the My Places toolbar. (If you were already using Small Icons, that option would be greyed out and you would only be able to choose Large Icons.)

This view can be useful if you add more places to the toolbar. You can do this by navigating to the folder (using the My Places toolbar or the drop-down navigation menu), and then clicking Tools and clicking Add to My Places.

Once you have added your own place to the toolbar, you may need to click the down arrow (▼) at the bottom of the list to see your place:

Once you have clicked this down arrow, an up arrow (▲) will appear at the top of the list so you can navigate back up.

As well, the Rename and Remove options will be enabled for your custom place:

The My Places toolbar will be available to you no matter what document you open, so you can customize it once and never have to do it again!