Windows 10: Want To Add Download Folder To Task Bar - It Adds File Explorer When I Drop It

Hey folks,

As the title states. I used to have the direct link to downloads folder with a blue down arrow icon in the bottom left of my taskbar by the start button. I removed it accidentally. Now when I drag it back it adds 'File Explorer' with a folder icon. This isn't what I want and even this doesn't work. It says 'This file does not have an app associated with it' etc etc etc. Even if it did work it is still not what I want! I simply want one click access from my task bar directly to my downloads folder as I have previously had. How hard does it have to be to do this? I've tried right clicking desktop and creating a shortcut and doing it that way but it always just creates file explorer folder.

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks

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Hi, the search box is Cortana's - you can see this is you rt click the task bar, hide/show it you have to go to 'Cortana'. Thus I'm puzzled about your comment that you only use file explorer.

If you only want to use file explorer, then you can use 'Quick Access' (= 'favourites'). For example, if you rt click a folder in explorer, you should see 'Pin to Quick Access'. That adds a link in Quick Access. (But it doesn't offer an opportunity to rename it, so 'Downloads' was already in Quick Access, and pinning 'Downloads' on a different partition simply duplicated the name (!) - maybe there's some way round that...

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You might like to explore, say, Classic Shell, which includes an indexed search (I've not tried using the search myself yet, but use Classic Shell).