Adding another jump list item to Windows Explorer's Jump List in System Tray

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Running Win 7 Home Premium SP1 on an Acer Aspire 5532 with 3Gb RAM, 160Gb HDD, AMD Athlon 64 TF-20 processor (1.6GHz).
(Is “quick list” the same as “jump list”?)

A couple of weeks ago, I attempted to add an item — an additional file folder item — to the { jump list | favorites list} in my WinExplorer icon located on the System Tray.
Somehow, I managed to drag and drop the ‘Downloads’ folder into the ‘My Documents folder’. 

Now, I have multiple items named “Downloads” showing up in the ‘My Documents’ folder.

I can view the ‘Downloads’ folder as I normally would — from WinExplorer’s ‘Favorites’ group.  When I do that, its location shows up as C:\Users\John_S\Downloads.  That’s what also appears in WinExplorer’s address bar.
I can also see it when I click on ‘My Documents’.  It shows up as a standard sub-folder there.  In the address bar, it shows as C:\Users\John_S\My Documents.
Then, when I select the item ‘Downloads’, in the navigation panel under ‘My Documents’, the address bar now shows it as C:\Users\John_S\Downloads.
But, looking in the right details panel, the ‘Downloads’ item shows some files, and also a subfolder named ‘Downloads’.  If I then drill down using the navigation panel to My Documents > Downloads > Downloads, the subfolder ‘Downloads’ shows the latest item I downloaded, a zipped folder…  and in the address bar it shows as
C:\Users\John_S\My Documents\Downloads\get-started-acrobat-dc.zip
If I next click on ‘Downloads’ in the ‘Favorites’ group, the navigation panel under the Favorites group expands to show
Desktop > John_S > Downloads > Downloads > Zipped Files
… and the address bar shows  C:\Users\John_S\Downloads\Downloads\Zipped Files

NOTE that the “My Documents” item is not included in that stream of nested folders!

1. Could I have messed up something in the Registry that is causing this mixed clutter?
2. Is there a folder or file under my C:\Users\John_S\AppData which I need to examine for some irregularity?

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I still want to learn how to get the ‘Downloads’ folder to show up as a permanent jump list item in the WinExplorericon, on the taskbar!

Thanks very much.
JohnS1606

Some detail:
I have the following User Accounts set up in my Win 7 SP1:   Administrator; Default; John_S; Public.  John_S has Read/Write privileges to the “Administrator” user.

Viewing the folders from the main WinExplorer, I have a Favorites group at the top of the left navigation panel.   I have it populated with Computer; Desktop; Downloads; Recent Places; My Documents; and my primary user’s folder, John_S (contains the usual stuff like AppData, Desktop, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures…).

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I believe the source of all your troubles here is that you dragged the Downloads folder into the My Documents folder. This is causing Windows to be confused — one of Windows’ “official” folders is not where it is supposed to be.

I suggest that you first drag and drop the Downloads folder out of the My Documents folder and back to its original location. That one step may fix the whole thing. If it doesn’t, you should be able to simply add the Downloads folder to the libraries. Once it is in the libraries, it will be a permanent jump list item that you can easily access.

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Thank you, Jim.
It turns out that my tinkering several days ago solved that portion of my trouble.  The “Downloads” folder is back where it belongs on Win Explorer, in my root folder “%userprofile%\“, along with Desktop, “My Documents”, “My Pictures”, et al.

Jim,  I simply can’t remember what steps I have been taking successfully to pin [a particular folder] to the [folder of the WinExplorer folder on the system tray].

I think that previously I have right-clicked, then opened a folder a number of occasions, until WinExplorer “gets used to it”, and eventually, over time, it appears in the “Recent” sublist in WinExplorer.   Once it is on the “Recent” sublist, then I can simply right-click its name, then click on “Pin to this list” in the drop-down menu.  It then appears in the “Pinned” sublist in the WinExplorer folder…

Maybe it is something peculiar about the “Downloads” folder, and it just doesn’t merit any more of my or your attention.  Still, it’s puzzling!
I’m marking your response as the Answer.  Thanks for your time,
JohnS1606

 

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I’m marking this issue as RESOLVED… but it’s still not clear to me.  I accept that this is a case  of PICNIC — problem is in chair, not in computer.

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