How to add links to folders/.exes in desktop?

[mika2salo]

I saw one pic in this forum where user had added links of his hdd drive folders (Like my pics & and launch half-life 2) to his desktop.

He said that it was done by active desktop and if I remember correctly it had something to do with shortcuts too.

The links were plain text. They had no pics / icons.

Im noob with html-coding, so i can't make the code myself and I don't have any example. Can anyone knowing HTML-coding give me code / example of how to make that kind of active-desktop object?

Or if someone has any idea of how to do it in other ways, please let me know.

And btw, how can i add activedesktop objects to windows installation?

[DiGGiTY]

In HTML the code would be:

file://\c:\

Just replace c:\ with whatever drive you wish to access.

[mika2salo]

Thanks, but im still a noob with HTML-coding...

How do I place height/width/position?

Or text font color?

Small example please?

[purewaveform]

This is a little onld, but still alost entirely vaild.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/active.shtml

http://www.kylyria.net/kylyria_tutorial/tutorial.htm

also google for help creating "active desktop"

[tguy]

Here is a link that uses Microsoft's shell scripting objects to create shortcuts. It's nice because it has predefined classes for things like: All Users\Desktop etc.

http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view....tType=component