One of the oldest and most used features on Windows is the ability to create shortcuts to files and programs stored on your PC. Creating a shortcut is not the same thing as moving the program or file ...

William Beaver asked for “a simple, safe” way to remove the arrows from the shortcuts on his desktop. Shortcuts point to files–usually but not always programs–that are stored elsewhere on your drive.

In this post, we will help you create a printer shortcut on Windows 11/10 computer. Earlier versions of Windows OS show a printer icon in the system tray of the taskbar for the print queue. But, with ...

Shortcuts are a convenient solution for quick access to folders you use frequently, but if you've gone overboard or installed a lot of new programs recently, your desktop can quickly become cluttered.

If you visit certain Web pages, such as Facebook and Gmail, on a daily basis, you can create shortcuts to them on your Mac OS X desktop. Web shortcuts enable you to access your favorite Web pages with ...

In this article, we will show you how to create desktop shortcuts to access your apps directly from your desktop on Windows 11, 10, 8.1, 8, and 7.

You can create a shortcut in Windows 10 to access a file or program from the desktop, or another folder. Shortcuts are usually created automatically when you install ...

OK I have searched through the forums to find a solution but have been unable to come up with any answers. This is my dilemma:<P>I am creating an installation interface for an old DOS program, which ...

Whenever you connect a USB drive, external drive, or DVD to your computer, you have to open This PC or Computer folder, find the drive icon, and click on it. If you close the Explorer window and feel ...

You need to learn how to create shortcuts in Windows 10. Without them, you will waste time searching for your favorite apps, programs, games and settings in your PC’s menus. Creating shortcuts in ...

Update: Thanks to MacStories reader Thomas, I was able to remove the need to upload image assets to Dropbox. The shortcut is now much faster to run (takes about 5 seconds instead of 20) and doesn’t ...

Website bookmarks are great to have, but what’s even better are desktop shortcuts right on the desktop. Here’s how to create website shortcuts and add them to your Mac desktop. If there’s a website ...