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• How to create a desktop shortcut icon for sites that I use a lot

  until I started using firefox, I used to be able to right-click on any site I used and the possibility of creating a desktop for a firefox shortcut icon does not seem to allow this am - I missed something else I can try-i find it very useful shortcut icons

  Hi mary1745watson,

  Take a look at the article create a shortcut on the desktop to a Web site. It's a fairly simple process.

  Hope this helps!

• Create a desktop shortcut to open the (subway) start?

  I want to make a shortcut on the desktop to open the subway (Start Menu). I know there are ways to make desktop for metro applications shortcuts, but I wan to make a shortcut that I can put on my desk that actually opens the metro as if I had moved the mouse to the lower left corner of the screen and opened it from there? There must be a way?

  1 create a text file and name it start.vbs
  2. edit the file and paste the following code
  Set objShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
  objShell.SendKeys ' ^ {ESC}.

  3. save the file on your C drive and create a shortcut and put the shortcut on your desktop.
  4. right click on the shortcut and change the icon to something you want, or you can create a custom icon, I did it by finding a windows logo on the web 8 and taking a snip of it.

  5. put newly create a shortcut on the lower left corner of your screen and now you have an icon to get to the start screen, bypassing the hover bottom left corner.

• How to create a desktop shortcut to a FOLDER of bookmarks?

  Can create a shortcut on the desktop to a Web site, no problem, but I want to make all of a folder of bookmarks.

  Sorry, Firefox must be run to be able to view the folder 'Favorites '. Bookmarks are stored in the places.sqlite file in the profile folder.

• Right-click on the program icon to create the desktop shortcut - nothing happens?

  I right click on any program icon to create a shortcut on the desktop and nothing happens. It is as if he has forgotten what to do when you right-click. How can I fix it

  Hi Yoliray,

  • Since when are you facing this problem?
  • You did changes to the computer before this problem started?

  However, you can start the computer in safe mode and check if you can create a shortcut on the desktop in safe mode and after return the result. To boot to the desktop in safe mode keep tapping key F8 during restart. Once you see the option to start in safe mode select and press to enter.

  If you can not create a shortcut in your user account, you can start again in safe mode and try to access the built in Administrator account and try to create a shortcut in the administrator account and check if it creates and post back the result.

  You can also try to re - register the i the shell32.dll file and check if it helps to create the shortcut. To re-record the file, follow the steps below:

  a. Click Start and click Run.
  b. in the run box, type the command regsvr32 /i shell32.dll and click Ok.

  Restart the computer and check if that helps.

  I hope this helps. Let us know the result.

  Thank you and best regards,

   

  Srinivas R

  Microsoft technical support.

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• Create the desktop shortcut in windows 8 for "windows update".

  I want to check my windows to update often, but I can't make a shortcut to access.  I know how to do, but it is not okay. I go to it and I right click to pin to one of the two places the task bar or the menu 'Start' which I do not know if this is more, but that is besides the point. For other things I can create a shortcut, and I'm sure I used to have one before I had to re install the computer. When I right click on it nothing appears at all.

  Do this way:

  1 - Press Windows + X to display the context menu

  2 - go to control panel

  3 - go to the system section

  4 click-and - drag the Windows Update icon out on your desk and it lay

• Create a desktop shortcut to a saved file

  Hello world
  I am using the command "baCopyFile" with "baMakeShortcut" of Buddy API. I got the baCopyFile"for work, it stores the file where I want that, but can't is 'baMakeShortcut' at work. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

  BuddyAPI has a function to get the desktop folder (and several others)

  set baSysFolder ('desktop')
  "C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Desktop".

• With regard to creating a desktop shortcut to a Web site. When I drag and drop the icon on the desktop, and then click to open, I get a box 'print' on the site.

  When I double click on the Firefox icon, it brings me to the "print area". What is the problem and how can it be solved?
  Thanks, Jeff

  Thanks for your suggestion. II ended up adding an element of the registry which fixed the problem.

• 3rd party applications stop creating desktop shortcuts

  A horse of Trojan and virus completely disabled my browsers, shortcuts, etc..  I just finished restoring my site and everything works except one!

  When I run 3rd party applications they not create the desktop icon that runs the application.  I get an error msg '1909 - failed to create the desktop icon.

  When I go into the folder and right click and create a shortcut, it does not work.

  In iE8, there is only an execution of the installation that creates a shortcut within the app... it does not work.  It is the only part of my installation I have been unable to restore.

  I work part-time at home for a company and I need these desktop icons for programs.  In fact, the icons of the Office for WORD, EXCEL, etc., have also stop working.

  I hope you can help me.

  Mona Glover

  Hi Mona,.

  1. have you made changes on the computer before this problem?

  2. you receive an error message or error code?

  This problem may occur due to virus corruption of system files or system.

  Try the following and see if it helps.

  Method 1:

  Refer to the steps in the following Microsoft article.

  Difficulty of broken desktop shortcuts and common system maintenance tasks

  Note: FixIt would attempt to recover bad sectors on the hard disk, in the course of this process there are chances of data loss from that particular area.

  Method 2:

   

  I suggest you make a sfc scan and test the question.

  The sfc/scannow command. analyzes all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with appropriate Microsoft versions.]

  Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System File Checker (Sfc.exe): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310747

  Keep us informed on the status of the issue.

• all desktop icons not missing, run any command in the start menu, can't create desktop shortcuts

  All the desktop icons are missing, unable to create desktop shortcuts, without run command in the start menu... no info

  If system restore is turned on and you can go back enough, restore the computer to an earlier date using Safe Mode.

  Restart the computer and start typing the key F8, select Safe mode with command option. If you are prompted to select an operating system, use the arrow keys to select the right pair and press ENTER. Log in as administrator or with an account that has administrator credentials. At the command prompt, type % systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe, and then press ENTER. Follow the prompts to restore your computer to an earlier date.

• Cannot open any desktop shortcut, get this message: this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder option Control Panel > can't open anything in the control panel.

  Cannot open any desktop shortcut, get this message: this file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder option control panel > can't open anything in the control panel. And when you try to download patches get message saying "microsoft cannot find the file. Tried to copy the 'rundll32.exe' file in system32 but does not work, can not even open the clock! Help, please.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Office/default.aspx

  Office at the above link forums

  XP forums:

  http://social.answers.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/category/WindowsXP

  Link above is for XP Forums.

  There is a list of the different Forums XP to the link above to help you.

  You get the help you need there.

  Here is the Vista Forums.

  See you soon

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How can I add missing icon to the desktop shortcuts

  Question too much techno for me... I have several desktop shortcut icons... For most of those who appear as the Mozilla Fox, which is fine, but unfortunately, there are too many icons in Firefox, and I wanted to change some REAL WEB SITE icon, or the favicon. How will I know how to do this? Thank you!

  It is not a matter of Firefox making it simple - the Windows operating system controls the desktop icons, so with 3rd party Windows applications automatically use the application for the shortcut icon, but it is possible to change the image of what you want.

  If you want the image of the Web site that the site to use for the URL bar as a shortcut on the desktop icon to a Web site:

  1. Define the shortcut on the desktop.
  2. Find and save the image you want to use for this shortcut.
  3. Then right click on that shortcut, then open properties > shortcut on the shortcut menu for the shortcut on the desktop, then use "change icon...". " and "Browse... ". " your hard drive for the image you want to use for the shortcut on the desktop.

  Insofar as find and save the Favicon of the site, see the screenshot below.

  1. Locate the icon on the Info Page > media tab and click on it once so it is highlighted, then view this picture in the preview window of media down and also check the Dimensions 32 x 32, if the image is not a picture of Type X-ICON.
  2. Then use the button Save under to save this image - name which has saved something unique, as (for example this forum) mozilla - favicon.ico image then you can tell him apart from any other favicon.ico image you may have saved or save.

  If you want to use your own choice of an image, you can convert the image into an image to favicon.ico here.
  
  http://Tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/
  
  When you create a favicon.ico for use as a desktop image, make sure that you select the option merge with a 32 x 32 desktop icon on this page.

  edited to make the process clearer

• can I safely delete "unused desktop shortcuts" from my office?

  my computer is slow, and I'm trying to remove as much junk I can of my C drive, as it got very crowded.  something appeared on my desktop-"unused desktop shortcuts" and it has more than 1,900 items.  can I safely remove this?  I have windows XP home - I'm not very techno

  The folder with unused desktop shortcuts is generally created and filled during the execution of the Integrated Desktop Cleanup Wizard. 1900 shortcuts does not seem to be a bit excessive, but if you had the time close to machine, and the cleanup utility was run regularly so I guess it's possible to have accumulated that much over time.

  You must be sure to remove the folder, although it won't make a difference to the functioning of your PC. Reasons for a slow running machine are usuallyeither that there is too much background running processes, or you have been infected by some kind of Malware.

  I hope this helps.

  Neil

  www.nwarwick.co.UK

• Cannot delete the desktop shortcuts

  I recently added Dell Dock. Shortcuts added were on the quay and on the desktop. When I tried to delete the desktop shortcuts, I received the following message:

  "Cannot find this article.
  It is no longer in the Office of C:\Users\Public\Public. Check the location of the item and try again. »

  I then deleted Dell Dock and now am stuck with 5 shortcuts on my desktop that are not going anywhere, not open to anything, and I can't remove.

  Someone please help!

  Hi StarsSkyClouds,

  Thanks for the response on the Microsoft answers Community Forums.

  Try to remove these in safe mode shortcut icons. Follow the steps on how to start in safe mode.

  Advanced startup options

  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/f9c50a72-04EC-4088-9fd4-a4f979eef5a71033.mspx

  Note: Try to remove the icons from your account in case of connection failure to the account administrator in safe mode go the c:\users\username\desktop location and try to remove it from there.

  Another step you can try is to create a new user account in Control Panel > user accounts. Open a session in the new account go to c:\users\username\desktop location and try to delete from there.

  If this fails, you can try to remove these icons in the windows recovery environment starting from the DVD. Follow the steps below for the link below to start the recovery environment.

  Repairs to the system of Windows recovery environment

  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/95b4c03a-ac42-49a4-a90d-8f3736a995271033.mspx

  After you boot from the DVD

  Step 1: Start in the screen Options of system recovery.

  Step 2: Click on the command line option.

  Step 3: Type notepad and press ENTER to open a Notepad. Press Ctrl + S, and it will open a save dialog box.

  Step 4: Click on computer, and it will open all your drives.

  Step 5: Go to the c:\users\username\desktop site and remove icons.

  I hope this helps.

  Let us know if you need more assistance.

  Kind regards.

  Nicolas Mathieu

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• Desktop shortcuts are losing their targets

  I have SBS 2011 and it synchronizes the content of my local profile, including the desktop shortcuts.  Sometimes, however, desktop shortcuts will lose their targets and I have to remove the 'old' and create new ones.  Is it possible to remember shortcuts?

  I have SBS 2011 and it synchronizes the content of my local profile, including the desktop shortcuts.  Sometimes, however, desktop shortcuts will lose their targets and I have to remove the 'old' and create new ones.  Is it possible to remember shortcuts?

  Why you use a server to a workstation?  Or are you?

  I'm guessing you have the SBS and other workstations and a roaming profile and log off when you connect in the SBS, return and then log in to a workstation that has made requests to your shortcuts are - you find them broken?

  If the answer is "Yes" - connect to a computer first to get your profile.  Then log in to the SBS and make sure the latest system, you log on that is the workstation - this way your shortcuts should remain intact.

  In any case...
  Support for Windows Small Business Server 2011, 2008, 2003 & 2000

  More precisely - these forums:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/smallbusinessserver/