How To Create Shortcut In Windows 8
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. Here is how you can quickly put a shortcut icon on your Windows 8 desktop for any installed desktop program.
This does not work for the Windows 8 style apps that only run in the non-desktop environment.Press the Windows logo key to open the Start screen. Right-click on an empty space and click All apps in the bar at the bottom.Find the program – you may have to scroll – and right-click its tile.Now you get the options on the bottom for a number of tasks. Click Open file location (see the red arrows in the illustration). This switches you to the desktop and opens File Explorer.
The shortcut location for the program will already be selected. 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). Click that.That’s it. You will now have a desktop shortcut for that program on the desktop. You can position it as you like.
The shortcut works as expected, double-click it to open the program.© 2012 Ludwig Keck. This is sooooooooooo making me want to destroy my laptop. I am now regretting having bought it with windows 8. I must be the most stupid person to have ever owned a lap top but I just cant do this. I followed it to the ”all apps” then right clicked on Skype as I want that on my desktop. In the bottom taskbar I do not get a single option for anything.
I detest the windows 8 app page and bought the laptop for the versatility of the laptop thinking windows 8 would be simple. I have tried everything to add normal icons like Skype, ebay etc to the desktop view and cant do it. I tried to ”add shortcut” and cant find a single app when I browse for them.can someone give an idiots guide PLEASE. Don’t use any computer terminology. Some one talked of ribbons, what the hell is that. My hairs fine.HELP ME PLEASE BEFORE I TOSS THE LAPTOP IN FRUSTRATION!!!!!! Like with Internet Explorer, there are two versions of Skype available: A “modern” app that runs on the crayon crowd side of Windows 8.1 and a desktop version.
The app is installed by default and you can use it from the Start screen. If you don’t have a Skype tile on your Start screen go to Apps view, right-click the Skype tile and click Pin to Start in the options bar.For the desktop version, go to the Skype website skype.com. Find the Windows desktop version – this is a download. By default you will get both a desktop shortcut and also a Skype icon pinned to the taskbar.Sorry that it took me so long to answer your comment, Murray. Convert mac image to vbox image download. I was checking out how it works on Windows 8.1 and had trouble with my webcam.
How To Create Desktop Shortcut In Windows 8
Thank you Brenda,My guess about why Microsoft has made creating a shortcut so obscure is that they want shortcuts to go away. They work very well on large monitors, not so well on little phone screens. Once you have hidden something so users wont find it, it will not be used. When it is not used much you can say that it is of little interest and thus unneeded. Do you remember groups in SkyDrive, now OneDrive? First they were pushed into the background, then you couldn’t add members or send mail to them.
Thus they are unneeded. Kiss them goodbye. Desktop shortcuts? Soon the question will be “what were shortcuts?”.