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What is a shell object?
The “My Documents” folder is a shell object. It is a special shell object, a shell folder. Shell folders are not real folders on your hard disk; they only refer to real folders. They are a kind of “hard links”, a special type of shortcuts. Ok, you can use shortcuts to hard disks or you can use shortcuts to directories on your desktop to access places on your hard disk you often need to access. But you can’t browse them that easy, shell folders are much easier to use.
You can browse through their subdirectories on the left side of the view, or you can double-click on the right side. They behave in the exact same way as the “My Documents” folder. With the shell object editor, you can create as many of those shell folders as you want, although we recommend only choosing the folders you use most.
However, there are more shell objects. The Internet Explorer that resides on your desktop by default is a shell object, too. It is not a shortcut because it has not the typical shortcut arrow. The Internet Explorer is a delete able shell object, but you can create shell objects that are impossible to delete. This may sound like nonsense to you, but it is useful in some rare cases and such objects can be created with this editor.
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