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is there any way to make a shortcut to the desktop of a mounted network drive? like when you map a drive in windows XP but its in "My computer" instead of the desktop?

Sounds like you want to create an alias - right click on the network drive con and select "Make Alias". You can move the alias to wherever you want
 
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