Helpful Tips for SharePoint Developers - #3: 12 Hive Shortcut

So no matter what you do, you are going to need to drop and modify things in the "12 hive" in SharePoint. I navigated to it exactly 3 times before I decided my best move would be to just create a shortcut. I made the shortcut to this folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\ADMISAPI

because I wanted to have the entire 12 hive automatically opened up. I put the shortcut in My Documents so its always available when I explore the hard drive. I think this has already saved me a lot of time in the way of navigation.