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Expert: Lorry Date: 7/6/2008 Subject: website shortcuts on desktop
Question Hi Lorry,
I have vista installed and have been trying to put shortcut icons on the desktop for a few websites, hotmail and suchlike mainly.
I think I used to rightclick somewhere at the beginning of the website and it allowed me to send a shortcut to the desktop - but no matter how I try I can't do this in vista, it only allows me to send to blogger and gmail...do hope you can help
Thanks
Ch
Answer Hi Christine,
Shortcuts For Web sites, Programs, Folders and Files
Creating any desktop icon for any program, file, folder on your computer is easy, and can be done using a built in Vista wizard. You can also create shortcuts to Web URLs.
1. Right click anywhere on your desktop.
2. Left click New, then select Shortcut from in the New menu. This launches the Create Shortcut wizard
3. Enter the location (Web address) or browse your hard drive for a location (file, folder or program) that you want to create the shortcut for
4. Click Next
5. Still in the Create Shortcut wizard, enter the name you'd like for this shortcut when prompted
6. Click Finish
7. Once you close any open windows you should see your new shortcut icon on the Vista desktop
