Changing shortcuts in 'Save As'-dialog

I usually restructure my folders on hard drive a bit to keep documents in separate paths depending on project, and usually they don't exist in "my document"-folder. Which makes it a hassle whenever I want to save a document into that folder since the default "save as"-dialog only contains predefined links.

So, today I decided to find out how to work around this, and turns out it is possible, you just need to do some registry magic.

Here's how:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
Create a new key named 'comdlg32'
Create a new key in that key named 'Placesbar'

Create a new string named 'Place0' and type folder (MyComputer)
Create a new string named 'Place1' and type folder (E:\[Work]\[proj_x])
Create a new string named 'Place2' and type folder (MyDocuments)

(for clarity, this is where all the strings are located: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\comdlg32\Placesbar\...)

Other pre-defined shortcuts of interest:

• MyDocuments
• MyPictures
• MyMusic
• MyFavorites
• Desktop
• ProgramFiles
• Recent

Victory!