Another annoying external drive problem

[Guest001]

Another issue problematic with external drives is if you have any explorer shortcuts to files or folders on the external drive(s).

They will become dead links that can slow your computer if the drive they point to is not plugged in into the PC.

This is especially true if the shortcuts are are in a menu on the toolbar or to a lesser degree now, on the start menu.

To stop this behavior use batch files to act as shortcuts (the original way) and as they are only text based files they are not active and you can open or start multiple files and folders with one click!

The irony is you put the batch files some where then make a shortcut to them and you can put those shortcuts where you would have put the explorer shortcuts!!! And there will be no miss-addressing unless the drive letter changes of course

Superior once set up.

Quick examples of this are

%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe "D:\My Folders\Tools\Office" opens the Office folder

start /d "D:\My Folders\Tools\Office" My Data.doc opens the My Data.doc file