Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Shortcuts at your Taskbar

Will it will be easier to open our favorite website in single click every time you want open the website? Single click meant without opening your browser, typing the website url and pressing enter or by going to Internet Explorer favorites and clicking the Book mark...

What if you open google.com in single click. Or open your banking portal in single click. Everyday we start our work by connecting to client VPN, by login to vpn website. We have to open browser, select bookmark to load the website.

By creating shortcuts to these Websites in Taskbar we can open these sites in single click.

The following are the steps to create Windows Shortcuts to the websites

1. Right click on your Desktop. Select New > Shortcut





2. Click Browse and navigate to the following path

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\" and select the iexplore.exe file



3. Now type the website url next to the Iexplore location followed by space. (The url is command line arg for the iexplore.exe)

Eg. "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" www.google.com





4. Click Next and type a Name for your Shortcut and Click finish





5. Shortcut for Google.com will be available in your Desktop





6. Now right click the shortcut icon. Click Properties and under Shortcut Tab click the 'Change Icon' button. Click Browse and select the shell32.ext in "C:\Windows\System32". Now select any icon and click apply. You can skip this step safely if you dont want any icon

7. Now Right click the Google shortcut and click "Pin to Taskbar" button





8. Now you can access your favorite website in single click at your "Windows Task Bar"





So whenever you want access Google.com just click the shortcut from Taskbar and Google.com site will the launched.



Disclaimer: These steps I learnt from my own experience. Please use caution while attempting your own

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