Any way to create a Desktop shortcut to a subfolder?

I succeeded in creating a Desktop shortcut to a subfolder named "Guides" in the Documents directory. But if I use the same steps to create a shortcut to a subfolder named "Captures" in the Documents directory, it opens to "Home." Below are the steps I used.

1. Right-click in vacant area of Desktop -> New -> Shortcut -> in location field, type in path:

explorer.exe "C:\Documents\Guides"

2. Next -> type in name (e.g. Guides) -> Finish.

These steps also work for other subfolders in C:\Documents but not for most, even those with unique names. Is there a way to force the shortcut to open a subfolder, using RegEdit?

If we are talking about Windows 7/8/10/11 the default location of your Documents folder is

C:\Users\yourname\Documents

so any subfolder inside Documents should be like:

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\subfolder

or in your case

C:\Users\yourname\Documents\Captures

So create a new shortcut and type the path above in the target, where yourname is the user name as shown in the Users folder. This should work. The same way you can copy paste a URL (aka internet location) so you can double-click the shortcut and open a specific website.

Easier to Select Folder/File > More Options > Send to > Desktop(create shortcut).
Then no errors are made in manually typing in the Target: or Start in: fields.

Using your method, Browse To the Folder/File, again the Target: and Start in: paths will be filled in.

As far as I know this works for everything in the Documents folders.

There is no "explorer.exe" in the path.

If you're a creating a dummy hub for a bunch of office applications, you have put explorer. exe in the path so the hub will open the folder. You can change the default file icon to a hub one.