Common File Dialog Box - Customize Places Bar

adipose said:

Just adding what I learned.

Even though it says:

The list of Common Shell Folders that may be specified:

Desktop, Recent Places, Documents, Pictures, Music, Recently Changed, Attachments and Saved Searches.

This is not actually true....

Many of these words will get you nothing, while others will get you something different than what you typed. Very strange. So use the following:

1. For Desktop:

c:\Users\<user>\Links\Desktop.lnk
(do not try to use %userprofile%, it will not work)

Note: if you just use "c:\users\<user>\Desktop" it will use a different icon (regular folder icon) and link directly to your desktop. The desktop view will not have shortcuts to "Libraries" and "My computer" (which normally appear under "Desktop" even though they are not on your actual desktop).

2. For Libraries:

c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries\Documents.library-ms

Note: if you just use "c:\users\<user>\Documents" it will show a different icon (regular folder icon) and call it "My Documents". Go figure...

Also see in this same folder:

Music.library-ms
Pictures.library-ms
Videos.library-ms

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Hope this helps everyone.

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Edit: I should have read the article. It lists several useful things that differ fro what windows says, such as using

• MyComputerFolder
• MyDocuments
• MyFavorites
• MyMusic
• MyPictures
• MyNetworkPlaces
• MyFavorites
• CommonDocuments
• CommonMusic
• CommonPictures
• Desktop

These work, whereas the ones in the policy editor do not.

Hello Adipose, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Thank you for sharing. Even easier though, you can use the shell commands for them instead. :)

• shell:desktop
• shell:documentsLibrary
• shell:MusicLibrary
• shell:PicturesLibrary
• shell:VideosLibrary

No problem Adipose. Thank you for reminding me about those. :)

You're most welcome Stampler. :)

I'd probably end up opening up everything by mistake with a hover and open feature.

Stampler,

This will not do what you described, but it will help make it easier to copy or move selected files to another folder by using the context menu and selecting "Copy to Folder" or "Move to Folder" and then selecting the folder to copy/move it to.

Context Menu - Add Copy To Folder and Move To Folder

Hello DD, and welcome to Seven Forums.

I suppose that you could create a shortcut of the long named remote server folders, rename the shortcut to what you like, and add the shortcut in group policy instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn