From: "Gary Britt" 

Create a shortcut for the shortcut folder and then use the appropriate
explorer.exe commands and switches and then give that shortcut a hotkey.
But that might cause a new window view of that same folder to open on each
invocation of the hotkey.  You could use comdow or macro express or another
of several hotkey/macro utilities to do this.  Comdow is free and is a
console app, macro express which I use is commercial software.  There are
many free ones that could handle what you want.  There is an open source
and free windows macro scripting program called autohotkey that looks
pretty interesting (not as user friendly of any interface as macro express,
but for a programmer that probably wouldn't matter).

Gary Britt


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:42aedc58$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Speaking of brain fade, I've forgotten a hotkey in the desktop navigation
> category.  Say you have a bunch of shortcuts on the desktop, plus a couple
of
> open desktop folders which contain only shortcuts to apps, explorer sorts,
> etc.  If the focus is on the taskbar or a desktop item, using the kb only,
how
> do you jump the focus to the main area of one of the open
folder-containers?
> I guess if it's different for 2k and XP, state that.
>

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