Windows – How to browse ALL files via taskbar tree browse

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There is a simple trick in windows that can allows us to browse all the computer via single click via the Toolbar.

How ?

This is my Current toolbar :

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Right click and :

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Select your Computer :

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It will append this to the toolbar :

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Now drag this to the left :

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You will see this :

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Now , at the right side drag this to the left again :

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Now – when you click on the >> you can browse in a tree way – the whole computer.

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Pretty helpful for quick navigation.

Question

The problem is that it doesn't show hidden folders like AppData :

For example – I do have this folder : 

C:\Users\sff\AppData

But as you can see : No AppData in here :

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Is there anyway (registry maybe?) that this browsing will show all folders ?(I don't want to change rsha attributes obviously).

FYI , the display options for hidden files and system folder are all ON , So I do see them in Explorer :

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AppData is just a sample. Tomorrow it can be MyHiddenfolder.

Best Answer

This menu structure does not support hidden files and folders, but you can create a 2nd link to it that will work using mklink.

Open a command prompt with administrative privileges, and enter:
mklink /j c:\Users\sff\App_Data c:\Users\sff\AppData

A new shortcut folder will be created and it will show up in your tree. Of course if you browse to the folder, you'll see 2 AppData folders, but there's no way around it.

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