Adding A “Documents” Shortcut To Your Windows Vista Desktop

Personally, I find that the folder I access the most on my Windows Vista PC is the Documents folder. I store everything in there; I can’t live without it. However, unlike my Windows XP machine which came with a shortcut to the My Documents by default, my Vista rig did not. Fortunately, implementing a shortcut to the folder is a piece of cake.

All we need to do is simply click your Windows Vista Start button and navigate to the Documents link like so:

Followed by right-clicking on it and proceeding onto to Send To > Desktop (create shortcut).

And you’re done! Now, let’s admire our handy work:

There we have it; A nice little link to our handy Documents folder. That wasn’t difficult at all, was it?