I finally got sick of going to Desktop, My Computer, C:\, downloads, game_mods every time I wanted to access that directory. Here's my method of speeding that up:
Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables. Take a look at the user variables. Click New. For variable name, type in an easy number like 1, and then for value type your directory, in my case c:\downloads\game_mods. Click OK and exit out of the Properties dialog. You will have to first reboot whatever application you want to use this with (only when you add a variable). Now, you can go in that app's File Open common dialog, and in the file name text box, type the following:
%1%
The percent signs let Windows know its an environment variable. As you will see, auto-complete is also fully functional using this way of shortcut. Instead of a number you can also type %dl% (dl for variable name), short for downloads. You can just type %1% and press enter and it will take you right there also. It also works with the command line. Just do cd /d %1%. You don't need the /d if you are on the drive where that shortcut is located. If you omit the /d and you're not on the same drive, just type C: (or whichever drive) in the command line and it will take you there also, but I think /d is easier. I think you can add as many of these custom user variables as you wish.
If you're in a download (File Save) dialog, in the box add %1%\ to the beginning of the file name box and it will save it in that directory you specified. In addition to all this you can also type it in the address bar of Windows Explorer.
Anyone else have a shorter way?
Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Environment Variables. Take a look at the user variables. Click New. For variable name, type in an easy number like 1, and then for value type your directory, in my case c:\downloads\game_mods. Click OK and exit out of the Properties dialog. You will have to first reboot whatever application you want to use this with (only when you add a variable). Now, you can go in that app's File Open common dialog, and in the file name text box, type the following:
%1%
The percent signs let Windows know its an environment variable. As you will see, auto-complete is also fully functional using this way of shortcut. Instead of a number you can also type %dl% (dl for variable name), short for downloads. You can just type %1% and press enter and it will take you right there also. It also works with the command line. Just do cd /d %1%. You don't need the /d if you are on the drive where that shortcut is located. If you omit the /d and you're not on the same drive, just type C: (or whichever drive) in the command line and it will take you there also, but I think /d is easier. I think you can add as many of these custom user variables as you wish.
If you're in a download (File Save) dialog, in the box add %1%\ to the beginning of the file name box and it will save it in that directory you specified. In addition to all this you can also type it in the address bar of Windows Explorer.
Anyone else have a shorter way?
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