It's not very easy to do, as all the project tree updating is happening on a separated thread and optimized to make only changes to the tree when a specific file change its contents (you know how is it to mantain this updated on 300 files project, at realtime). An update is planed for this area, as the current use of a TreeView control, forces a lot of Marshall Invoke for the updates, wich uses a lot of CPU. I'm not sure how will this be optimized, but I'm planing something like creating my own Tree control, and this could be the moment to make changes to the Local shortcuts tree.