You know you pasted it correctly when you can see the entry available in the folder (mine is the bottom one that says “Tech Chomps.”)Ĭlick on the “Start” menu from the taskbar (the Windows icon) and then scroll down the “All apps” list until you get to the entry you just added. Type “shell: programs” into the Run dialog box and then click on the “OK” button.įind the website desktop shortcut icon from the desktop now and right-click on it and then select the “Copy” option from the menu.įrom the programs folder that you have open, right-click anywhere in it where it shows an empty white space and then select the “Paste” option from the menu to paste the shortcut into the programs folder. Click on the “Run” option from that menu. Go to the taskbar and right-click on the Windows icon to bring up another menu. The same can be said for the web pages because you can add web pages to the tiles and the apps list too. The tiles available from the Start menu coupled with the “All apps” list is designed to give you quick access to the applications and programs on the computer without having to clutter the desktop with icons. If you want to take things a step further, you may also add that same web shortcut to the Start menu in Windows 10 by following the rest of the guide below. Now when you close the web browser, you can see the desktop shortcut to the website in Windows 10. It then gives you a message asking whether the URL you have selected is the one that you want to be saved to the desktop. Once you have the page open, right-click the mouse or touchpad you are using and select the “Create shortcut” option from the menu. If it is a website homepage that you want to be saved, make sure that you have the home page of the site open instead. So, if it is a specific web page that you want to be saved to the desktop, open it up now. If you do it this way, the shortcut you create will not be of the homepage of the website but rather the web page you are using now. You can see in the example below that I’m not on the homepage of the website. Open the web page that you want to have on the desktop.
#HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP WINDOWS 10 FOR WORD HOW TO#
How to Create Sesktop Shortcut to Websites in Windows 10 and Add Web Shortcut to Windows 10 Start MenuĬlick the mouse or touchpad you are using in the search field in the taskbar and type “Internet Explorer” to bring up the IE application that you need to click on. You just need to know how to get access to it which is something we cover in the guide. But the Internet Explorer 11 browser-the latest version of the IE browser-is still there available for you to use. You just might not have seen it yet because Windows has taken it off the Start menu and taskbar and replaced it with MS Edge. Using the Internet Explorer browser in Windows 10 is pretty easy because it already comes installed for you to use. As soon as you use IE to get the icon on the desktop, there is no need to use the IE browser again. Even if you don’t like using the older Internet Explorer browser and have already made the switch to Microsoft Edge or any other browser, it doesn’t really matter. The alternative is having to open the web browser of your choice and then get access to the website that way.īy making use of the Internet Explorer web browser in Windows 10, we can create a desktop shortcut for your websites, so they appear on the desktop for you to use. Doing so means you can open the website by clicking on the new icon that is available from the desktop.
If you are someone who likes to browse the web more than anything else in Windows 10 and you have a particular website or two that you visit more than any others, you might like to create a desktop shortcut for that site. One of the things that fit this bill is having desktop shortcuts to websites. What’s more, some of these things are not available from the Windows Settings like so many other things are. Nonetheless, there are still some common things that Windows users want to be done in Windows 10 that are not available the way the OS comes to use out of the box. Windows 10 has done an excellent job of making the operating system more efficient to use than other versions of Windows before it.
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