When you map a network folder to a drive on your computer, Windows 7 creates an icon for the mapped drive in the Computer
folder’s Network Location group. However, you may find that the supply
of available drive letters is getting low if your computer has multiple
hard drives, multiple CD or DVD drives, a memory card reader, a Flash
drive or two, and so on.
To work around this problem, you can add your own icons to the Computer folder’s Network Location group. These icons are called, appropriately enough, network locations,
and each one is associated with a particular network folder. That is,
after you create a network location, you can access the network folder
associated with that location by double-clicking the icon. This is
usually a lot faster than drilling down through several layers of
folders on the network computer, so create network locations for those
network folders you access most often.
Follow these steps to create a network location:
1. | Select Start, Computer to open the Computer folder.
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2. | Right-click an empty section of the Computer folder, and then click Add a Network Location. Windows 7 launches the Add Network Location Wizard.
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3. | Click Next in the initial wizard dialog box.
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4. | Select Choose a Custom Network Location, and then click Next.
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5. | Type
the network address of the folder you want to work with. Notice that as
you enter the address, the Add Network Location Wizard displays a list
of objects that match what you’ve typed; so, you can save some typing by
selecting items from the lists as they appear (see Figure 1). You can also click Browse to use the Browse for Folder dialog box to select the network folder.
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6. | Click Next.
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7. | Type a name for the network location and click Next.
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8. | Click Finish. The Add Network Location Wizard adds an icon for the network folder to the Computer window, as shown in Figure 2.
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