Can you create shortcuts file and whenever I chose to place them?

I have the folder shortcuts on my desktop that points to the network locations.  Because these folder shortcuts on my desktop they have also highlighted in the top level of the Windows Explorer when I opened this program.  This makes it very easy to navigate to the network folder / subfolder, I have a folder shortcut Setup,.

These shortcuts to files created in Windows XP.  I am now on a W7 machine and they continue to work properly.  The problem is that network locations, I need to point to have changed.
W7 does not seem to me to change the traces of these shortcuts to folder or create new ones.  Is it true that W7 I cannot create a folder shortcut to be placed on the desktop?
If this IS true, y at - it a well-known tweaking utility that will enable such a feature?
Is there a windows file that contains path information this shortcut file that I could 'hack' in the hand?

AHAAAAAA!  :)  So after a little research, it turns out that the 'thing' I leaned to create is now known as a symbolic link.

The function "mklink" in W7 gets fact.
Here is a link to a web page describing the symbolic links, even if you are probably already very familiar with them.
VERY useful!  Does exactly what I want it to do.  If I add these links on my desk, they appear at the bottom of the tree of office files in Windows Explorer and can be expanded as a real folder.  They can bind to both network shares.
I use the mklink /D option.

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