When you click the Shortcut menu item, you will arrive at the input screen shown in Figure B. First, right-click on a clear spot on the desktop and navigate to New | Shortcut, as shown in Figure A.įigure A Navigate the menu to create a new shortcut. There are other ways to accomplish this task, but this is my preferred method.
Is this a case of old tricks die hard?Ĭreating a shortcut should be familiar to almost everyone, but we will walk through the process just for clarity. When I published this back in February 2010, there was some question about whether these shortcuts were needed anymore, but yet it is still a popular tip. This blog post is also available as a TechRepublic Photo Gallery and TechRepublic download. The procedure for Windows 7 is very similar to that of Vista and XP, but now you can pin those freshly created shortcuts to the Start Menu or the Taskbar or both. One of the most often-requested Microsoft Windows tweaks is for shortcuts that shut down, power down, and restart a Windows session.
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