[Ham-Computers] Make a Desktop Shortcut to a Web Site

[Jim Hill]

Thanks for the tips. I'm going to try all of them.  I'm almost certain I 
used Mike's approach in the past, but with a little mod.  Right clicking 
didn't work in my case, but moving the cursor to the icon to the left of 
the URL causes it to change to a hand. Press and hold the left button, and 
drag to the desktop and a shortcut is created.

There's only one problem, as shown in the following example.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html#nav  points to the Symantec 
site that provides an antivirus definition download. the icon is the yellow 
Symantec ball, but when it is moved to the desktop it changes to an IE or 
Netscape icon, depending upon the browser used.  I didn't have this problem 
earlier.
Jim


At 02:05 PM 1/3/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> > I want to make a desktop shortcut that points to a web site,
> > but have forgotten how.  Can anyone help me? I know it's
> > possible, because I have done so before.  I'm using both
> > Windows Me and XP.
> > Thanks, Jim
>
>If you're looking at that page in a Web browser, you can drag the URL to the
>desktop using your right mouse button.
>
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