How to create a shortcut on desktop for a url

#How to create a shortcut on desktop for a url windows#

However,В because the icon is that of the site, you may not want or need to change it at this point. In other words, thereвЂ™s no super easy way to change the icon.

#How to create a shortcut on desktop for a url windows#

And while it is possible toВ change the icon by hand-editing certain files buried in your system, apparently Windows doesnвЂ™t provide a user interface for the process.

What Windows creates in this situation is a specialВ kind of shortcut: a вЂњpinnedвЂќ shortcut. Windows will createВ a shortcut using the favicon supplied by the website - or the default browserВ icon, if the site doesnвЂ™t provide one. Visit the page you want the shortcut to go to, click and hold on theВ siteвЂ™s favicon, drag it to the desktop, and release. When using Internet Explorer in Windows, you can click and hold on theВ favicon in the address bar and drag it to the desktop to create a shortcut toВ that page. Usually, it picks its own icon вЂ“ IEвЂ™s вЂEвЂ™ icon, FirefoxвЂ™s fox, and so on. If a site doesnвЂ™t provide a favicon, itвЂ™s up to the browser to pick one. (вЂњicoвЂќ isВ the file format used for icon images.) Some browsers, like Internet Explorer, display the favicon in the browser address bar when you visit a page on that site. When you bookmark a site, or add it to your Favorites, the favicon isВ typically used as the icon that appears in the Favorites toolbar or menu вЂ“В hence, the name: favorites icon. The icon, often called вЂњfavicon.icoвЂќ, is placed in the root of the site. Websites have the ability to provide a custom icon in the form of a вЂњdefault iconвЂќ, which can be used forВ several purposes. In fact, there are a couple of approaches. ItвЂ™s not that difficult to provide a custom icon for a shortcut at all.