I have noticed that one can NOT add a shortcut to a network drive (share drive) within a Windows 7 VMware virtual machine by using anything other than opening two explorer windows and clicking and dragging the mapped drive to the folder where you want the drive shortcut to appear.

Using other methods such as the ‘Create Shortcut’ method by right-clicking on a folder location or using the ‘Add network location’ do not work.  Each time I have tried these methods the window to create the shortcut locks and freezes.