In Vista, I had the root of one of the network drives I use pinned to the top of the start menu as a UNC shortcut (i.e. not a mapped drive). I seem to remember getting this to work in Vista was non-obvious, but I got it there somehow.
I recently upgraded to Windows 7, and one of the things that was missing was my network drive shortcut. After some playing around I managed to get it back there by doing the following:
- Create a shortcut to a random local folder, and place the shortcut somewhere you don’t mind keeping it.
- Drag the shortcut to the start menu where it will give you the option to pin it to the start menu. (The option to pin it to the start menu isn’t present on the right-click menu without some registry hacking).
- Right click on the shortcut, choose properties and change the name of the shortcut and the target location as desired.
- Job Done!
Of course, this could be how I did it in Vista as well?!?
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