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I'm sure this is a dumb question, but:

How can I set a "Go to" location (in the address bar, or a Catalog entry, or whatever) for one of Windows' "Special Folders" (Desktop, Pictures, Downloads, etc)? Vista has a whole load more of these than XP used to, and I'm getting fed up of navigating through Users\<me>\Whatever. I know I could use the actual directory name, but I'd rather use something a bit more portable.

I tried searching the forum and wiki, but didn't find much ("Special folder" isn't a particularly good search term :-()

Thanks,
Paul.

Hello,

What you are looking for are "Environment Variables". Here is the wiki page:

http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/En ... _Variables

Unfortunately, there aren't environment variables for all the various special folders (e.g. My Music, My Pictures, etc). But it helps for some, certainly.

Thanks,
Paul.

You coul'd create entries in the Catalog using the USERPROFILE environment-variable.

For example: That makes it a bit more portable instead of using the absolute path.