>>>The same problem as with the combos and icons. Up to a 20-30 of them, it works. More of them, it becomes unusable. Yes, I've seen cases where people had 200 icons on their iconostas (that would be considered a very greedy rich church here), and they trained themselves to quickly memorize their locations (and then rememorize them again when Windows decides to reshuffle them alphabetically), but such exceptions are just exceptions.
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>>The idea was to separate those links, files, wathever into meaningfull folders?
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>Never worked for me, as those are folders on the desktop, which means I have to close or minimize what I'm doing so I can see it. As I usually have at least a dozen apps running, highly impractical.

Windows+E, a link to folder in the favourites (left pane; top) and from that place anything else. More used folders directly from favourites, most used stuff on keyboard shortcut.

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>>Anyway 200 mapped drives might possibly not work.
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>Unicode perhaps? In ideographic alphabets, you can have thousands.

(rofl)

>>Most folks I know simply start a search.
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>Windows search is rather unusable - it usually fails to find what I'm looking for. And it requires indexing of everything, which significantly slows down the machine (last time I let it run, which was long ago) and even then it still fails (but at least it gets to read the content of every document and call home to tell).

But neither M$ or NSA offer a recovery if you lost your data. What a waste of bandwith.