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by nicklaus Jan 4, 2014 6:02AM PST

I just built a new computer and I am trying to populate the desktop with shortcuts to websites I go to. Im running IE 11 on a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OS. In the past what I would do is search for a website, go to that website and in the address bar, I would drag the address to the desktop. A specialized icon would sometimes go the desktop also. Now when I try to drag something from the address bar to the desktop I get an icon but this file type is not a shortcut but a website icon. If I click on properties of the shortcut it says Website File (website).

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Clarification Request

(NT) And what happens if you click on it?

by Kees_B Forum moderator Jan 4, 2014 6:10AM PST

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File format

by nicklaus Jan 4, 2014 9:45AM PST

The web site will open. However, I want the text below my shortcuts to be the least amount of characters in it to let me know what the shortcut us. The way I'm having to do it now, as soon as I try to take any characters out of the text that is there, it becomes an unrecognizable file format and it will not open.

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Re: shortcut

by Kees_B Forum moderator Jan 4, 2014 7:23PM PST

I'd go into the detail view of your desktop folder in Windows Explorer. After setting the folder options to show extensions (file types) you might find a way to rename it.

If not, it's only one click more to use it as a favorite/bookmarkj inside your browser. You might find that a smaller nuisance than long texts on your desktop.

Kees

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Shortcuts

by nicklaus Jan 5, 2014 3:32AM PST

I am doing that. (using the favorites) I just cant figure out what changes to make it so that the shortcuts act and appear like shortcuts. Even the small arrow in the lower left side of the icons doesn't show.

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Just reading along.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Jan 5, 2014 3:42AM PST

I opened a command window to see what a shortcut looked like and here it was

"Yahoo.website" (without quotes)

I was able to rename it with the usual command to Y.website and it was Y on my desktop.

It appears not much has changed on the command line. Link follows.
Bob

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

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Re: shortuct

by Kees_B Forum moderator Jan 5, 2014 3:47AM PST

A shortcut has the extension .lnk.
This, according to Bob's research, has the extension .website.
So it isn't a shortcut.
So it doesn't have a shortcut arrow.
Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Kees

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Try this

by Bob__B Jan 5, 2014 5:48AM PST

When you get to the web site you want....copy the address bar.

Go to the desk top and right click a blank area.

New>short cut>paste.

I see an icon with an arrow which I can rename.

If I click the icon it takes me to the web site.......YMMV.

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