Today, there is practically no person who would never use the Internet. We can say that the main tool in the interaction between the user and the Internet is the browser. Considering the capabilities of modern browsers, we can safely say that this is almost the most important program installed on the system. Indeed, modern Internet browsers are equipped with such a huge set of functions that most of them remain unknown to the average user.
Every day we open many Internet resources, but almost everyone has literally several sites that you refer to every day, many times a day. It is very inconvenient to prescribe the address manually, but if you bookmark it, then if there are a lot of resources, the one you need may get lost, and additional extensions for quick access create an additional load. Therefore, the developers made sure that the link to the desired page could be easily moved to the desktop. Experienced users may laugh, they say, why is this necessary. Well, let's imagine that you have elderly parents who find it very difficult to master a new technique and they only use a computer to open a page on Odnoklassniki or view the weather forecast. This is the opportunity for them to be a real salvation.
We offer detailed instructions on how to create a website shortcut on your desktop. We will look at two methods that work on all the most popular internet browsers.
This method can be used in almost any viewer, with the exception of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge for Windows 10. There, this process is organized a little differently, we will break it down in more detail.
Going to a website, for example, VKontakte, you will see that its address is displayed in the address bar, and next to the address, usually on the left side of the address bar (in Yandex Browser, on the right), an Internet icon in the form of a lock or a globe is displayed ... To place a VKontakte shortcut on your desktop, follow a few very simple steps:
- Change the browser view from full screen to normal window view so that the start screen is visible around the edges. This can be done either by dragging the edge of the window with the mouse cursor to the center of the window, or by clicking the middle button in the upper right corner, which switches the program to full mode or windowed mode.
- Move the mouse cursor to the left edge of the address bar, hold down and drag the link to the desktop. You will see that the icon of the site that you are currently open will be immediately created.
- Double-click the cursor on the Odnoklassniki shortcut on the desktop or on any other page to follow the link.
Internet Explorer
How to create a shortcut to the Odnoklassniki page in the once most popular browser? The developers suggest using the taskbar, not the desktop. After that, when the icon is launched, a separate browser window will open.
Microsoft Edge
How to bring Odnoklassniki to the desktop? By default, this viewer offers the option to place a site icon on the home screen. To do this, you need to click the three-dot menu button in the upper right corner and select "Place site on home screen". Then you can just drag the icon to the desktop. Notably, no matter what your default browser is, the link will launch in Microsoft Edge.
Method 2. Using Windows tools
This method will work the same regardless of the browser used. How do I create a shortcut to a site on the desktop in this way?
Conclusion
Despite the fact that almost all browsers have advanced bookmarking capabilities, developers do not forget those users who prefer to put the site icon on the desktop. Therefore, if you are looking for how to create a Yandex shortcut or how to make a VKontakte shortcut, you've come to the right place. In the comments, write to us which resources you use most often.
If the shortcuts from the desktop have disappeared, the user experiences a huge inconvenience. Finding all programs through "Start" is very long and inconvenient. It is better to understand the causes of the problem and solve it. Mostly, the fix is easy to use: tweak the registry, display the desktop, or use a special utility. Now about everything in order.
There are a couple of probable reasons why shortcuts have disappeared completely in Windows.
Desktop crash
An accidental system crash could well provoke the erasure of all shortcuts from the desktop. It is possible that incorrect settings are being used or a failure occurred during the installation of updates, connecting a second monitor. Another common problem is the crash of the "Explorer" process, which is responsible for displaying the desktop.
Viruses
It is difficult to imagine an area of the system where a virus could not get through. In this case, malicious programs can delete shortcuts, rename them, or hide them. Any of the manifestations of viruses must be eliminated, but it makes sense to do this only after deleting the malicious code.
How to recover desktop shortcuts and icons
Time to consider 4 main ways to get shortcuts back to their rightful place in Windows.
Desktop settings
The easiest option to solve is that the display of shortcuts is simply turned off. It only takes a couple of seconds to turn them on:
- right-click on the desktop;
- place the cursor on the line "View" and check the box "Show desktop icons".
System Restore
If the computer has encountered a problem recently and there is a restore point, you can roll back all recent changes. The only condition is that you have a disk with the Windows distribution kit.
How roll back Windows 10:
- insert a disk or USB flash drive with Windows;
- restart the computer, and at the time of startup, press F9 or another button to go to the "Boot menu" (the tip is at the bottom);
- select a device with a Windows distribution for launch;
- in the blue window with the "Install" button in the center of the screen, select "System Restore";
- in the next window select "Diagnostics", and then - "System Restore";
- find a suitable rollback point and activate it.
Using the registry
A couple of parameters are responsible for displaying shortcuts in the registry. It is worth checking that they are installed correctly and changing them in case of incorrect installation.
Algorithm of actions:
- to push "Win + R" and introduce "Regedit";
- go along the way "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / WindowsNT / CurrentVersion / Winlogon /";
- double click on "Shell" and make sure it is installed "Explorer.exe";
Most users have about a dozen favorite sites that they visit almost every day. Typically, users open these sites using bookmarks in their browser. However, there is also a faster way. In this article, we will show you how to create a shortcut to your site on your desktop. Using this method, you can open the browser immediately with the web resource that you need at the moment. At the same time, each time it is launched, it may be a different resource.
To create a site shortcut, just drag the site icon from to the desktop. Open the site for which you want to create a shortcut. After that, shrink the browser window so that part of the desktop is visible on the screen.
Next, grab the site icon with the left mouse button, which is located to the left of the address, and drag it to your desktop. After that, a shortcut will appear on the desktop, which will link to the resource you need. This method is very simple and allows you to quickly create any number of links on your desktop.
The hard way
There is also another, more complex way. To do this, open the context menu on the desktop (right-click on the desktop) and select the item indicated in the screenshot below.
After that, a small window will open in front of you. Here you need to enter the address of the web resource you need and click on the "Next" button.
In the next window you need to enter a name and click on the "Finish" button.
After that, a shortcut of the site you selected will appear on the desktop. It should be noted that when using such a link, the pages will open in the browser that is set as.
For example, let's display a shortcut to the Word program on the desktop.
Press the Start button 1. Then move the cursor (without clicking the mouse buttons) over the All Programs menu 2. A list of programs installed on your computer opens. Follow the arrow to go to this list and hover the cursor over the folder you need - Microsoft Office 3.
A list of programs included in Microsoft Office will open. Move the cursor to the program we need:
Microsoft Office Word 2003 4
Now, hovering over Microsoft Office Word 2003, press the right mouse button.
A context menu will open in front of you.
Releasing the right mouse button, move the cursor to the Send 5 item, a submenu will open on the right, in which you select Desktop ( create shortcut) 6 and press the left mouse button.
That's it, now you can admire the program shortcut that appears on the desktop and run Microsoft Office Word with it.
If you cannot find the program you need in the Windows Main Menu
But sometimes you can't find the program you need in the main menu (someone accidentally or deliberately removed the shortcut). Do not despair, this is fixable. If the program is on the computer, then you need to find the launching file of the program and display a shortcut from it on the desktop.
For a Word text editor, the path will be like this. Using Windows Explorer or the file manager Total Commander, find the Program Files folder, in it - the Microsoft Office folder, then
open the OFFICE11 folder and find the WINWORD.exe file in it
On the found file, right-click the context menu, and then proceed
in an already proven way. Do the same with any other program.
Find its folder in Program Files, then find the file that launches the program in the folder
(most often it has the .exe extension, but there are others). If you don't immediately understand which file is launching, double-click to try to launch it. If the program starts, then everything is correct, this is the main file. Display a shortcut from it on the desktop using the method,
shown above.
Note: You cannot delete anything in the Program Files folder with the Delete button. Otherwise, the program
which is in this folder will stop working!
How to rename a desktop icon
If you do not like the name given to the shortcut by the Windows program, for example, Shortcut for Word, you can change it.
To do this, hover the cursor over the shortcut (icon), right-click the context menu and select the item Rename... Immediately, the text of the signature under the label is highlighted and you can delete the words "Label for", or completely rename the label. After that, be sure to press the Enter key - only then your name will be saved.
Paying attention that such actions (rename, delete) can be performed only with labels(they have a little black arrow in the lower left corner of the label). Files
programs located in their folders in Program Files cannot be renamed! Otherwise, they will stop working. You can only deduce shortcuts from them, but with the shortcuts, do what you want!
How to display a site shortcut on the desktop
A site visitor asked me a question: " How to display a site shortcut on the desktop?". At first I thought that it makes no sense, because links can be placed in Favorites. But after trying this option, I was convinced that this method of opening a site has the right to exist. After clicking on the shortcut, the web browser is launched, and the site is opened at the same time (two steps at the same time) How do you create a shortcut to your favorite site on your desktop that you open every day? Since Internet Explorer is installed with Windows on any computer, let's create a shortcut using it.
So, open Internet Explorer, open the desired site in it. Now, in the File menu, move the cursor to the Send link, then to the right and click the link Desktop shortcut... Everything, shortcut ( icon) is already on the desktop. You can check!
There are several ways to "remember" your favorite sites on your computer. That is, you can make sure that the site you like can always be easily and quickly opened.
But there is another option. It is suitable for sites that you intend to open frequently. This method of "remembering" consists in the fact that you add to the Desktop, that is, to the screen of your computer, an icon that will open the desired site. We will now look at how this is done.
A way of remembering sites
Each site on the Internet has its own name. This is an Internet address where you can open it.
It is very easy to find out the name of the site - just look at the address bar of the browser, that is, at the top white line of your program for the Internet. It will contain different characters (usually English letters and punctuation marks). It is in this gibberish that the address of the site that is open at the moment is hidden.
Now, using our site as an example, you will learn how to extract it. And then we will "bring" it into the computer, that is, we will make an icon on the Desktop.
Look at the top white line of the web program. It looks something like this:
These English letters and symbols in it - this is the site address. More precisely, this is the address of the site page that is currently open. The address itself is written in the middle:
As you can see, the address of our site is site
Now we will "bring" it into the computer, that is, we will create an icon that will open it. To do this, we take an ordinary piece of paper and an ordinary pen or pencil and carefully write it down letter by letter.
Or you can just select and copy this address. It is this part, not the whole.
Then we minimize the browser window.
Right-click on the Desktop (on the computer screen). A list like this will appear:
Hover the cursor over the "Create" item and select "Shortcut" from the additional list that appears, that is, click on it with the left button.
Approximately such a window will open.
We type three English letters w into it, and then the address that you wrote on a piece of paper.
Or you can just paste it if you copied it.
Perhaps some kind of list will pop up, like mine:
Ignore it, just click on the "Next" button:
Now you need to type a name for the icon that will appear on the Desktop. In the case of “remembering” our site, I chose the name “neumek”. I print it:
And now you need to click on the "Finish" button.
That's all! A new icon has appeared on the desktop.
Now, to open this site, you can simply open this icon.
