To access your drives (Optical and Hard Disk), My Documents, and My Computer quickly from within Internet Explorer, simple type in one of the following commands in the address bar.

• My Documents ; which directs you to, obviously, your My Documents folder.
• My Computer ; which directs you to your My Computer menu.
• Letter of drive + “ : ” (ex. D: ) ; which directs you to the drive you typed in. Or, in this case, to the D drive.

Alternatively, from within Windows Explorer, you can access webpages by typing in the site address into the address bar; essentially turning the Windows Explorer window you have open into an Internet Explorer window.

Additionally, the user may start applications from the address bar of both Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. Obviously, this only works with applications which are already installed on the user’s computer. Now, this may seem like more work that simply clicking on the program’s desktop icon to start it. However, it also eliminates the need for the mouse when starting applications, and can be a time saver if the user is already viewing Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer. Remember, to access the address bar without using the mouse the user may press F6 instead.

Here are a few examples:

Typing in “windows defender” causes Windows Defender to start and typing in “ewido anti-malware” causes Ewido to start. Pretty cool, eh?