Move the pointer to the small icon in front of the web address in the address field. Using Internet Explorer 9 sign in to your Hotmail account. This makes access to online mail just a click or two away. The shortcut works as expected, double-click it to open the program.įor users of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9 it is easy to pin a Hotmail icon to the taskbar or to create a link on the desktop. You will now have a desktop shortcut for that program on the desktop. Right-click on the program name, move the pointer down to Send to then horizontally over to the sub-menu and down to Desktop (create shortcut). The shortcut location for the program will already be selected. This switches you to the desktop and opens File Explorer. Click Open file location (see the red arrows in the illustration). Now you get the options on the bottom for a number of tasks. Right-click on an empty space and click All apps in the bar at the bottom.įind the program – you may have to scroll – and right-click its tile. Press the Windows logo key to open the Start screen. This does not work for the Windows 8 style apps that only run in the non-desktop environment. Here is how you can quickly put a shortcut icon on your Windows 8 desktop for any installed desktop program. Windows 8 offers easy options to place a tile on the Start screen, “ Pin to Start”, and to put an icon on the desktop taskbar, “ Pin to taskbar”, but the method to create a desktop shortcut is not obvious at all.
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