Thursday, December 4, 2008

How to create a shortcut to manage network connections

Vista's "bread crumb" address bar in Explorer allows you to create shortcuts that are otherwise difficult to create. For example, let's say you want to make a shortcut that opens the "Network Connections" window (which normally takes several clicks to get to). Here's how:

Click Start | Control Panel, open the Network and Sharing Center.
In the left pane, click "Manage network connections."
Now in the address bar that shows the path, right click and select Copy Address.
Right click on the desktop (or in the folder where you want to make the shortcut) and choose Paste Shortcut.

Now you have a one-click way to open up your network connections to manage them. You can do this with any window that displays a path address in the "bread crumb" bar.

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