"No Shortcut" Documents

[Guest]

I have sent numerous questions in regards to Documents... Windows XP has a
feature where you can right click Documents then click on "Show on
Desktop"... Windows Vista has to display Documents as a "shortcut".... are
there ways to put Documents on the Desktop by not having it be a shortcut....
thanks again for any insight someone might provide...

Steve Leeder
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Michael Solomon]

I have sent numerous questions in regards to Documents... Windows XP has a
feature where you can right click Documents then click on "Show on
Desktop"... Windows Vista has to display Documents as a "shortcut".... are
there ways to put Documents on the Desktop by not having it be a
shortcut....
thanks again for any insight someone might provide...

Steve Leeder
(e-mail address removed)

Steve, placing "My Documents" on the desktop in XP in the manner you
describe was still just a shortcut.

 

[dean-dean]

Your User's files folder shortcut in the Start Menu has the command "Show
on Desktop", when you right-click it. In the Start Menu, look for your user
name at the top of the list on the right-hand side. Just as XP's My
Documents was the Main container for My Music, My Pictures, etc., in Vista
the (Your Name) folder is the Main container for Music, Pictures, etc.
Since Documents is a shell subfolder of the (Your Name) folder, a shortcut
to it can't be created without an arrow overlay. The (Your Name) folder
won't have this overlay, and is a "special icon" like Computer, Recycle Bin,
Control Panel, etc. Short of some sort of registry manipulation, I suppose,
there's no way to change this.