Creating Shortcuts
What Shortcut!
Creating Shortcuts helps us simply click in to a program or application by clicking an icon shortcut. This helps save time and avoids the sometimes long and tedious navigation required to launch a program, or open a specific folder. Many people shortcut folders containing music, documents or photos, in fact, almost any folder can have a shortcut.
To create a shortcut for a folder, you must first of all locate the folder, once you have located it, you right-click it and then scroll down the drop down menu to `Create Shortcut’ or `Send To’. Most of the time, you may want your shortcuts on your desktop for easy access. When you scroll down to `Send To’, you will see another pop-out menu that allows you to create a shortcut on the desktop. The instructions below illustrate this technique.
To Shortcut a File or Folder
1) Locate the file or folder you wish to Shortcut
2) Right-click the file or folder and Select `Send To’
3) Now click `Desktop (Create Shortcut)’
Right-click, Send To and then click Desktop (Create Shortcut)
You can use the same technique to shortcut programs. If you access programs from the All Programs menu, simply follow the above steps to create a desktop shortcut.
Right-click the Program you want to Shortcut
You can also shortcut websites or webpage’s, besides adding websites to your favorites, you can shortcut them to your desktop for quicker access. Below details how to Shortcut a webpage using the right-click method.
How to Shortcut a Website or Webpage
1) Right-click and empty space on the webpage and Select `Create Shortcut’
Right-click and Create Shortcut
2) Click Yes
This creates an icon shortcut on your desktop that looks like the one below.
If you wish to change the icon, or rename it, see: Creating Icons
You can also group these shortcuts in to a folder keeping your Desktop tidy. This is done by simply left-clicking and dragging the icon shortcut in to the folder, otherwsie known as, "click and drag" To see how to make a new folder see: Creating and Renaming Folders.
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