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Cygwin is a POSIX emulator layer for windows, it can be very handy for running most of Linux useful tools !, I had a long struggle installing Linux on my machine because all my HDDs are dynamic! (which is a big pain in the ass, luckily Linux now support those drives) so I had to find an alternative, and that was Cygwin.
I used it to run some tools such as NS2 network emulator and SSH, I thought I’d take this a step further and run a Linux desktop on it to make it more user friendly, finding gnome libraries was a hopeless case ! so i went for KDE, and I thought sharing the experience would be useful for the fact that finding a way to do it was really annoying :S, so here you go, the steps:
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Folders on Desktop:

1. right click on the desktop, choose “create launcher“
2. Fill the dialog as follows
   • Type : Application.
   • Name : the folder name or anything that you want.
   • command : nautilus the/file/path
   • comment : anything that you want to appear in the tooltip when pointing over it.
   • no icon : press to browse the specific icon you like.