As noted in a previous post about WLW, I was wishing WLW would allow you to save your posts and drafts in another location other than the default C:\Documents and Settings\blah blah.  Well thanks to a former co-worker who GTalk'd me today, I was reminded of a great little feature of NTFS called reparse points.  For some reason I had forgotten how useful these little guys can be.

So Sysinternals, recently acquired by Microsoft, has this nifty little utility called junction allowing you to create these reparse points, aka symbolic links.  I'd highly recommend downloading the entire Sysinternals suite while you're there.

With a simple command like the one below, I was able to "fake out" my file system into allowing my d:\joey\documents\blog posts folder and c:\documents and settings\blah blah folder to essentially be the same.  At least as far as windows is concerned.

junction "d:\joey\documents\blog posts" "C:\Documents and Settings\jeb\My Documents\My Weblog Posts"

You can read up more about using reparse points in this PCGuide article and Scott Hanselman has an article relating to how Vista uses and extends this technique for manipulating how files and folders are represented on the file system.