Vista - Vista Navigation Pane - Copies files rather than creating shortcut?

We are currently deploying Windows Vista Enterprise in our school. One
problem (of many!) in designing our user environment is the operation
of the Links folder in relation to the Navigation Pane in Explorer.
According to the documentation, a user can add a link to the Favorite
Links section by simply dragging a folder icon into this area. When we
try this we are finding that the entired contents of the target folder
is copied into the users "links" folder, i.e. it is creating a copy
rather than a shortcut!

We have tried removing all GPO and profile settings and we are still
getting the same effect.

Can anyone advise?

Kind Regards,

J.Caddy
Computing Services Manager
Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow, UK

Hello J.Caddy,

I do not know a solution other than making a shortcut manually and copy that into the Favorite Links instead.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

J.

Even though it may appear that the entire folder and it's contents were
copied to the Links section of the Navigation Pane, if you right click one
of these folders and select Properties, you will likely see a Shortcut Tab
there. This means that it is actually a shortcut and the files you see when
you click that shortcut are actually in the Target folder that the link
points to.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


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> We are currently deploying Windows Vista Enterprise in our school. One
> problem (of many!) in designing our user environment is the operation
> of the Links folder in relation to the Navigation Pane in Explorer.
> According to the documentation, a user can add a link to the Favorite
> Links section by simply dragging a folder icon into this area. When we
> try this we are finding that the entired contents of the target folder
> is copied into the users "links" folder, i.e. it is creating a copy
> rather than a shortcut!
>
> We have tried removing all GPO and profile settings and we are still
> getting the same effect.
>
> Can anyone advise?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> J.Caddy
> Computing Services Manager
> Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow, UK
>