I'm still very much a
command-line kind of guy. I get around the Windows UI just fine, but frequently
I find it quicker to just drop to a command prompt to accomplish certain tasks
(especially since Explorer generally sucks at launching apps with command line
params). I like the "My Documents" feature of Windows, as it keeps
documents easily accessible in from the Windows Explorer. However, when I want
to perform a command line operation in My Documents, it's a pain to navigate
there, even with path completion. Plus, C:\Documents and
Settings\Kevind\My Documents is a long string, so my cursor starts 2/3 of the
way over in the window before I've typed a single character.
I recently hit upon
the idea to create an NTFS junction point off the root directory (I called in
mydocs) that points to the "My Documents" directory. I used the Junction tool
from the wizards at Sysinternals. It
worked like a charm, and made "My Documents" much more accessible from the
command line. Of course, this solution wouldn't work too well on a machine
that is shared amongst multiple people. But for me it works
peachy.