first a discovery, then a question

[Sprocket]

first, I'll show these screenies... then I've got a question on how to do this the "right" way instead of this "round-a-bout" way. I just stumbled across this after months of wondering how to do it. In XP I managed to get the same effect by sharing a folder on the network, going to My Network Places, and copying the network shared folder to the desktop. The idea here is to have a folder on the desktop without it actually being there [for the purpose of having it on toolbars, such as the Desktop toolbar on my taskbar, to where it can pop-out/snap-back]. I don't know if this is making any sense.... oh well, you'll understand after the screenies.

http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image1.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image2.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image3.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image4.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image5.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image6.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image7.jpg
http://cyberplacetn.com/images/foldershortcut/Image8.jpg

So, I hope that shows you what I'm able to do in this way--quite an interesting discovery, I think--but I don't know how else to do it besides this long tedious process.

Anyone ever made these "Folders" or "Folder Shortcuts" [in win2k] which have targets located elsewhere than where they are also visible?

It would have been so much better to have an animation instead of the screenies, but hopefully after looking for a while, you'll get it. ;)

[Sprocket]

so... I don't guess anybody's ever seen or done anything like this before? I mean, come on guys, surely somebody. I mean, it's just too cool--I mean take a look, it's so useful. I just want to know the "correct" way or at least an easier or less time consuming way of doing it. see here, these folders are located on different partitions and everything, but they have the ability to show up as though they are are folders right there on the desktop, and programs, toolbars, you name it, can access them in that way. It's just like the My Document's folder--My Document's isn't actually stored on the Desktop at all--it just appears that way and other programs can access in that way, as if it were actually stored on the desktop... but isn't there an eaiser way to make these types of "Folder Shortcuts" as they are called in Win2K, without having to drag them to the top of the Start Menu as "Shortcuts" and then having to copy that shortcut (which really doesn't operate at all like a normal short cut) out to wherever you want it, ie: the Desktop?

[Smizack]

If in your pm, you were asking if that's the correct way to do it, I would say yes.
I don't see any other way to do it. If I do, you'll be the first to know.

Good tip btw.;)