I was wondering if I can make Hotmail an icon on my desktop? If yes, how? Sure! For the most part the desktop just holds shortcuts, and pretty much any shortcut will do. And there's several ways to create them. Right click on your desktop, and select "New Shortcut". Enter http://hotmail.com as the location of the item, hit next, give it a reasonable name (like "Hotmail"), and you're done. It's just that easy. If you like, you can then add that shortcut to your start menu as well. Click and hold on the desktop icon. Now drag it over the Start button. Don't let go, wait and the start menu will pop up. Drag the icon to a position on the menu and release. You could also hold it over a sub menu, wait for that to pop out, and then release in the position you would like it to live on that sub menu. The reverse works as well... click and hold on a start menu item, drag it to your desktop and release. The shortcut will be removed from the menu and appear on your desktop. If you want the shortcut to remain in both places, hold down the CTRL key before you drop the icon on the desktop. Shortcuts can be created for programs, as you probably already know, and URLs, as we just showed. You can also create shortcuts for any document or file that Windows knows how to handle: for example ".doc" files, ".mp3" files and others. Related:
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To those who keep asking how to create a custom icon to go with your new shortcut: 1. Using a graphics editing program resize the image you want to use to 32x32 and save it to a directory you won't forget. Most important, make sure to save the image as a .ico file. Google for graphics software that can do it - lots of free ones out there. 2. Next, right click your new shortcut and select "Properties". You'll see an option to "Change Icon". Simply browse to where your .ico is. That's it. Posted by: Len at January 8, 2007 09:23 PMYou are amazing. I did exactly what you said about adding shortcut for hotmail and now I the icon on my desktop and it works. Thans sooooooo much. Posted by: ginny at February 12, 2007 11:33 AMhi, i no you can get an icon the way you sugested but how do you get that web pages logo regards john Posted by: john foster at May 11, 2007 07:14 AMI'm looking for the answer to a question asked about the article above ...what to do when i get this message and can't open? "File does not have a folder associated with it...create??" Posted by: Gail E Cristofaro at July 10, 2007 11:01 AMHi Leo, When I click some shortcuts on my desktop that take me to a web site, I get the error message which says - "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folders Option control panel." Other desktop icons such as IE, open fine. I have tried many things to resolve this including renewing the icon, but I still have the problem. I am running windows XP. I see that this question has been asked before, it must be a common problem. Thanks, Chuck Posted by: Chuck at July 17, 2007 06:58 AMWhen I try to change the icon for a web page on my desktop, it changes and within a second changes back to the standard icon. All other types of icons can be changed with no problem. Is there a setting than can be disabled to allow me to change it? Posted by: sarah at February 1, 2008 06:16 AMHi Leo, When I click my shortcuts on my desktop that take me to a web site, I get the error message which says - "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folders Option control panel." Other desktop icons such as IE, open fine. I can open my web shortcuts in Windows Explorer but not on my desktop. I have tried many things to resolve this including renewing the icon, making new shortcuts, but I still have the problem. I am running windows XP. I see that this question has been asked before, it must be a common problem. Do you have any solutions? Thanks, Joe Posted by: Joe Shipta at February 19, 2008 05:37 AMIf I try to drag a shortcut off of IE7 favorites onto my desktop iget the same error "This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folders Option control panel". I have associated the file type to open with IE7. Other shortcuts work just not the new ones that I am trying to create. The favorite works but not the shortcut. If I try right clicking a link and making a shortcut I get the same thing. The icon is made but I get the error when I try to use it. This just started after I installed firefox, didn't like firefox, so uninstalled it. I am running XP. Posted by: David J at March 14, 2008 07:40 AMYou little ripper! This is such a neat trick, thank you!! Posted by: Stephen Mugford at July 23, 2008 06:33 AMCan I e-mail a desktop icon to someone that they can drag onto their desktop? Posted by: Dan Morris at August 25, 2008 01:20 PMPost a comment on "Can I make a desktop icon for a web page shortcut?":
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