like adding network locations

Windows 7 libraries are a really useful feature of ,Office Home And Student 2010Windows 7,Buy Office Ultimate 2007, however unfortunately they arrive in a slighly cut-down form out of the box.  Microsoft decided against exposing some really useful capabilities to users,Office 2010 Serial Key, like adding network locations, pretty much the first thing I tried to do.  You get this message:
Luckily, you can add network locations (and any other un-indexed locations), but it must be done programatically.  MS supply a command line utility slutil.exe, candidate for the worst named executable in history.  Pretty sure it stands for shell_library_util.  Anyway,Office 2007 Standard Product Key, I decided to write a tool to make it easy to add network locations, and added a few other features as well:
Add network (UNC or mapped drive) and any other un-indexed folders to libraries. Backup library configuration, such that a saved set of libraries can be instantly restored at any point (like after a re-install of the OS or for transfer between multiple computers). Create a mirror of all libraries (using symbolic links) in [SystemDrive]:\libraries.  This means you can reference all your files using a much shorter path, and also provides another entry-point to your files in many places in the Operating System (e.g. file open/save dialogs). Change a library’s icon.
Hopefully it’s easy enough to use,Office Home And Business Key, so I don’t have to explain it
You can download it for free below.  (Note: This will only run on >= Windows 7.)
Download Installer | Source Code
I must give credit to Josh Smith for his TreeView CodeProject article, upon which this solution is modelled.
The application uses the Microsoft API CodePack to manipulate libraries, which I encourage you to check out if you are writing software to integrate / take advantage of new features in Windows 7.
If you want to learn why and how libraries were introduced in Windows 7, including diving into the .library-ms file format, you can read this MSDN article.
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