How And Why To Quickly Access Desktop Files And Folders From Your Web Browser

Do you need to work in your browser mostly? And you keep it running always? And you find it time consuming to check/access your desktop files and folder by minimizing your browser window. You can access your desktop files and folder quickly by using a simple bookmark.

Why to access desktop files and folders from your web browse?

Following are the reasons:

• No need to minimize the browser window  to access your desktop files and folders.
• Access quickly.
• You can see all the files and folders and browse through them.
• You need to find something on your desktop without minimizing browser window.
• This saves your time/extra work.

How to access desktop files and folders from your web browser?

This is the most simple but handy trick if your web browser is always running in the maximized mode. To access desktop files and folders from your web browser you need to create a shortcut bookmark in your browser as follows:

• First enter the following URL in your browser and hit ENTER.(not to hard :P)
  

  file:///c:/users/

• You should see something like below
  
  
  
  
  
• Click on your User name (mine is DragonBall) .
• After that drag "Desktop" folder on bookmarks bar. (see below)
  
  
  
  
  
• That's it! You're done.

Whenever you want to check or access desktop files you can simple click on the Desktop bookmark (shown in the image above). You can use this method to create bookmarks for any folder you access often.