I asked this question because I have some local HTML pages that go under near constant editing.
After some thought, I've come up with the best solution so far, just for everyone's information. This was to create a folder on the desktop, copy the HTML links to it, then open it and RIGHT CLICK + EDIT. Much faster than bringing up Windows Explorer, finding the file, then doing the right-click edit.
It would be even nicer if I could save Notepad files to the desktop, but there seems to be no way to do that.