I’m normally not one to like storing items on my computer desktop. Perhaps what’s weird is that I also prefer that all the files I download from the Internet are saved to my Desktop instead of the normal downloads folder.

What I’ve done is customize the “Send To” menu that’s available from the right-click context menu. My customizations allow me to right-click on any file and quickly send the file to another destination folder for saving, storage or organization.
Customizing the menu is fairly easy, you can just follow the instructions below:

Create a shortcut on your desktop to the location/folder where you …read more

I ran into a bit of an interesting issue today as we’re getting ready to launch a new application in an office. The application is an Access .ade file that’s hitting a SQL 2005 Express database on the server. The .ade file is located on a shared network drive. We wanted to email a shortcut .lnk file to all the users that they could drag from their email to their desktops and use.
Our first thought was that we could attach the shortcut file into the email using the standard attachment tool of clicking on the paperclip, but that attached the …read more