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ThijsE

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Registered: 2016-09-29

Posts: 1

Windows Explorer - Favorites

I'm using Favorites in Windows Explorer to connected to network drives (rather than creating drive mappings). It would be great if NSM would support enabling/disabling explorer favorites based on profile.

ps. Great piece of software, I liked it so much I bought the pro version :-)

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: Windows Explorer - Favorites

Favorites in the Windows Explorer are just simple links located in the folder
C:\Users\USER\Links

So your suggestion is basically to create a feature to manage local links (whether used for linking to network drives or other locations). While this is not a bad idea, it seems to be a rather unique request. We'll add this idea to our backlog but time will have to show if there are more use cases and a higher demand for that.

But you could use our Script feature to do this easily right away:

1. Create a backup folder for disabled shortcuts, e.g. C:\Users\USER\LinksBackup\

2. Add a new script to a profile and add one of the following commands to it:
   "disabling" the shortcut: move C:\Users\USER\Links\test.lnk C:\Users\USER\LinksBackup\
   "enabling" the shortcut: move C:\Users\USER\LinksBackup\test.lnk C:\Users\USER\Links\

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