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)’
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.
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’
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.