I've only just noticed recently that this Messenger "My Sharing Folders" folder contains shortcuts to my entire computer.
Right clicking this folder only gives the options to...Open, Explore, or create shortcut.
It won't "open", but if I explore it, the following desktop shortcuts are inside.
My daughter uses Live Messenger a lot, but she has it configured to a Sharing Folder on my partition.
What's this folder about? Why won't it "open"? and is it safe or even possible to get rid of it? There isn't a delete option available by right clicking.
I don't use Messenger, but I'm still puzzled by its purpose, and could the information in it be open to "sharing"?
Cheers Humpty, that found the spot. The little bugger's gone. I'm probably not the only one with this, so here's the solution from that link, with credit to the poster on Neowin, "filter04"
Those that have installed the latest version of MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it is now called, have probably noticed that it installs a link in My Computer called 'My Sharing Folders'.
If, like me, you're not interested in this feature of WLM, or you just don't like the way it dumps a shortcut under My Computer, you can remove it by unregistering the Messenger File Sharing Shell Extensions dll.
One thing to point out to anyone else wanting to do this. Go into your MSN Messenger "Program Files" folder, and find the correct name for the actual fsshext.dll, as it's been changed quite a few times. It'll probably have a number like this: fsshext.8.1.0178.00.dll
If you have any problems after this with "Sharing", and want to reverse the process, just delete the -u from the line of code, and re-enter it into "Start > run".
