Placing URL links on desktop

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Hi-Always feel like my questions are foolish & that the answers can be found
elsewhere-but I often don't know where to look. It is a basics group, right?
Anyway, if I have a bookmarked page (this one is USGS for earthquake
activity) -can I place a shortcut on my desktop? And, if so, how? I did it
with weather radar but can't recall how I did it. Thanks!
 
alan said:
Hi-Always feel like my questions are foolish & that the answers can be found
elsewhere-but I often don't know where to look. It is a basics group, right?
Anyway, if I have a bookmarked page (this one is USGS for earthquake
activity) -can I place a shortcut on my desktop? And, if so, how? I did it
with weather radar but can't recall how I did it. Thanks!
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Simply go to the site then drag the icon in the URL to your desk top.

gls858
 
Go to the site and:

1. Click on File | Send and chose Shortcut to Desktop from IE
 
And if the URL has 124 characters??? Seems like a foolish way to get to the
webpage you want to go to!

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If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Richard said:
And if the URL has 124 characters??? Seems like a foolish way to get
to the webpage you want to go to!
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This is Andrew E. you're talking to. He's our champion of foolishness!

Besides being a foolish way to get to the web page, it's completely
unresponsive to the question asked, which is how to create a *shortcut* to
it.
 
Andrews answers, many times, require the need for a lot of typing, even
though a few mouse clicks will accomplish the same thing. I guess he is
trying to act important in that he knows how to work with a command line.

Unfortunately, as in this case, even his command line answers are not
usually correct.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Well, judging by most of the posts I guess I'll have to be a bit more
circumspect about the questions I ask! I'll just use a bookmark.
 
Visit web page.
Right click web page.
Click on Create Shortcut.
Click OK to the message that popsup: "A shortcut to the current page will be
placed on your desktop."

A shortcut now appears on your Desktop.

If you get the menu that has Save Picture As, etc., move your cursor to
where there are not any pictures.

If you get the menu that has Open, etc., move your cursor to where there are
not any links.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
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Thank you Wesley! A positive reply. It didn't have a "create shortcut"
option but I just right clicked the search result & hit copy. Then went to
desktop & clicked paste. It worked! Thanks again-you usually come through.
 
Alan:

Looking at the Sent Dates of these posts, was there any wrong with the
option I gave you about using the File | Send menu option in IE?

Didn't that work? The File menu option is at the top of the IE window.
 
Hi NewScience-Are you Lawrence? Looks like it. Yes, your suggestion is
basically what I ended up doing except that there was no create shortcut
option that I saw as I mentioned earlier. I did a copy & paste from IE-I
think. My memory is a problem area lately. Your post WAS helpful-I just got
caught up, & frustrated, with the insults that were being exchanged by
others. Thanks for your help!!
 
alan said:
Hi NewScience-Are you Lawrence? Looks like it. Yes, your suggestion is
basically what I ended up doing except that there was no create shortcut
option that I saw as I mentioned earlier. I did a copy & paste from IE-I
think. My memory is a problem area lately. Your post WAS helpful-I just got
caught up, & frustrated, with the insults that were being exchanged by
others. Thanks for your help!!
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Alan,
Just so you know what was going on. Andrew E is a frequent poster here
that CONSTANTLY gives out misinformation. In fact I think he has to
do it purposely. No one could be that consistently wrong. So whenever he
posts he tends to get flamed. Just a part of newsgroups. Take what info
you want/need and ignore the rest. Lots of helpful, knowledgeable people in
all of the MS newsgroups.


I see you're using the web interface. Using a newsreader will greatly
enhance your experience in newsgroups. Outlook Express is included for
free with Windows. Here's a link on how to set up OE and connect to
msnews.microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/newsgroups101.mspx


Once you get a taste of what a newsreader can do there are many others
out there that are better than OE (my opinion) but it's a good place to start.

gls858
 
gls858 said:
Alan,
Just so you know what was going on. Andrew E is a frequent poster here
that CONSTANTLY gives out misinformation. In fact I think he has to
do it purposely. No one could be that consistently wrong.
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I used to think that Andrew E. was just an ignorant wannabee, but I no
longer do. I also think he's a troll that does it on purpose. The main
reason I changed my mind is the number of times he gets corrected on things,
with Microsoft citations proving him wrong, and the way he just ignores the
corrections. He neither admits his error and apologizes, nor argues to
defend his point of view. He just ignores the correction and reposts the
same bogus information the next time the issue comes up. That's the action
of a troll.

The only good thing about Andrew E.'s postings here is that his command of
the English language is so poor that half the time the people he's giving
the bogus information to won't be able to even understand what he's talking
about.
 
gls858 wrote:
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The only good thing about Andrew E.'s postings here is that his command of
the English language is so poor that half the time the people he's giving
the bogus information to won't be able to even understand what he's talking
about.
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LOL

gls858
 
snip<

The only good thing about Andrew E.'s postings here is that his command of
the English language is so poor that half the time the people he's giving
the bogus information to won't be able to even understand what he's talking
about.
Click to expand...

LOL
 
double clutched LOL

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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