When I’m prompted to save something, a box comes up that give me folder names and a drop down box at the top to select where I want to put the file. On the right of this dialog box is a group of 5-6 icons that represent “My Recent Documents”,“Desktop”,“My Documents”, etc. I want to know if there is any way to change that menu to have a folder on my desktop appear there, instead of just desktop.
(I know it sounds lazy, but I forget, and before I know it my desktop is full of files I don’t want there.)
Thanks for any help/advice
I don?t think so but?..
Let?s say that you have a folder named ?downloads?. You could create a link to this folder and keep it on your desktop. The next time you want to save something all you have to do is click on desktop and then the link to your folder. It means 2 clicks instead of the 1 you were looking for.
You can but you “loose” the ones already there, unless you type them in as well. The easiest way is to get the freeware program X-teq setup from http://www.xteq.com/ and go to the Power Users, Standard UI and to Appearance - System - Open/Save Dialog and the settings are in there. This is a great little “tweaking” program but when they say “This can Damage” take them at their word and know what you are doing. This one is not one of those that can damage though.
Ok, so I have never posted before so hopefully, this will work. (reading for over two years and then finally decide to join and then goes to paid --Oh well)
Ok when you click file–save as and you get the box with dialogue of where you want to save it. click on desktop, either on the icon or on the drop down menu and your icon list of what is on your desktop will come up in that dialogue box.
across the top row, if you put your cursor on the little icons, the second one to the right of the written window saying desktop, is “create a new folder”. if you click that you can create a new folder and name it what you want just by putting your cursor onto that box and entering the name. And then you can save anything to it.
Hope this helps, 
MD
I have little previous experience with XP, but I know that with earlier versions of Windows, that solution won’t work permanently. That is to say, the folder will still exist, but once you log out and then log back in, the dialogue box won’t remember that it’s supposed to allow you to save directly to that folder, so you’ll be back where you started. The real problem is that the thinkers behind Windows believe that they know how your files should be organized better than you know yourself, so changing any of the default settings is ridiculously hard, if not impossible.
Unix has a philosophy. Windows has an attitude.