Published on August 19, 2006 By Jaramia In DesktopX
How can I make a shortcut to My Computer?
There are two options of My Documents...and on all of the downloadable My computers says that the sortcut is goin to one of the My Documents...thanks
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on Aug 19, 2006
Right, click make a shortcut on my desktop.
on Aug 19, 2006
Oh yea, then move the shortcut to where ever you want it.
on Aug 19, 2006
Right, click make a shortcut on my desktop.


If you have XP SP2, select "send to" when right clicking and you should get a choice to "send to desktop as shortcut"
You can also drag it onto the quick launch portion of the task bar so you don't have to go back to your desk top to find the short cut.
on Aug 20, 2006
I know what you mean - there isn't any way to do this. I have made this point before.
Creating a shortcut doesn't seem to work. There used to be a 'My Computer' but now there is just 'My Documents' duplicated. This is a DesktopX fault.
on Aug 20, 2006
I new it, I have been wondering this my self.
on Aug 20, 2006
And if you use the 'Browse' button to select My Computer, it opens the DX folder ....
on Aug 20, 2006
So theres no way to do this?
Can you do this through scripting? If so how?
on Aug 21, 2006
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on Aug 23, 2006
The code below should open My Computer on L-click:


Sub Object_OnLButtonUp(x,y,dragged)
If Not dragged Then
On Error Resume Next
Set Sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Sh.Run (Chr(34)& Chr(34))
Set Sh = Nothing
End If
End Sub

Normally you would put a file/folder in this line like this:

(Chr(34)&"C:\Program Files"& Chr(34))

But if you leave it empty like how I did at first then it automatically opens up My Computer.

Hope this helps.
on Aug 23, 2006
yay, it works, Thanks!!
on Sep 14, 2006
hehe I just tried putting "" in the Windows Run box and it bought up the Currently Logged on users folder C:\Documents and Settings\User of Doom