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Comment from Patricia Neyman on 2009-07-03

2009-07-03T23:38:24Z

Someone showed me once that you can create an ikon to any direction in the address bar by simply "grabbing" the little ikon in front of it and dragging it to the desktop. I use it all the time now.

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Comment from kentito on 2009-05-02

2009-05-02T20:15:16Z

I get how to change an icon but how do you keep the logo of the original address on tyour desktop. It's on my toolbar but when I copy or drag it coverts to explorer icon. Ihave VIsta

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Comment from eeg on 2009-03-22

2009-03-22T19:14:43Z

How can I create a desktop icon from a picture or clipart and assign it a url link. It must also be transferable to another computer by email so that it still opens the webpage on the second computer. Thanks! EEG

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Comment from rep1 on 2009-02-01

2009-02-01T13:20:52Z

Can I create a web address shortcut on IE7 like I can on Mozilla?

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Comment from Jorge on 2009-01-27

2009-01-28T02:09:21Z

what if i want to create a shortcut to a web page, but opened with a browser that is not my default web browser? I want to open a web page with IE, my main web browser is mozilla firefox

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Comment from Kathy on 2009-01-15

2009-01-15T19:26:19Z

I got up today and most of my icons were gone. They were icons that I don't use that much, but I would like to know where they went and how do I get them back. I can still go to my start menu and click to bring up what I am looking for, but I prefer my icons...especially my games. Can you help?

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Comment from Tony Stygal on 2008-12-09

2008-12-09T15:10:12Z

How do I replace the Blue Ball in the Google Toolbar with the hotmail icon that google uses to illustrate?
I also have the same problem with the ebay icon.

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Comment from Danny on 2008-11-05

2008-11-05T20:00:37Z

leo your the man! youve been so much help to me, if it wasnt for you i wouldnt be where i am today. you have inspired me. keep up the great work and remain focused at the job at hand. peace and love, danny.

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Comment from Kate on 2008-10-22

2008-10-22T17:25:38Z

Hi Leo, i keep trying to create a shortcut for some web pages on my desktop, when i click on it a message comes up saying "application not found" why is this do you know?

Thanks Leo

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Comment from Rick Ketterman on 2008-10-08

2008-10-08T20:18:28Z

Using XP Prof, SP3 / Explorer 7 ....

When I try to change the Icon for a web link on my desktop, it changes and within a milli-second changes back to the standard default icon.
All other types of File Link Icons can be changed with no problem. Is there a setting than can be disabled to allow me to change it?

I don't see an answer for this in the article.
Can anyone help me ?

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Comment from Umberto Monti on 2008-09-25

2008-09-25T14:43:52Z

Thankyou very much! I only regret to have discovered the suggestion so late since I stayed long without visiting your page.

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Comment from Rick Thompson on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T19:44:34Z

I'M HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM AS ABOVE. I HAVE CREATED THE ICON, IT HAS THE .ICO EXTENSION, BUT WHEN I TRY TO CHANGE ICON ON A WEB SHORTCUT, IT WILL NOT WORK. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?

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Comment from Dan Morris on 2008-08-25

2008-08-25T20:20:57Z

Can I e-mail a desktop icon to someone that they can drag onto their desktop?

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Comment from Stephen Mugford on 2008-07-23

2008-07-23T13:33:20Z

You little ripper! This is such a neat trick, thank you!!

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Comment from David J on 2008-03-14

2008-03-14T14:40:25Z

If 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.

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Comment from Joe Shipta on 2008-02-19

2008-02-19T13:37:11Z

Hi 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

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Comment from sarah on 2008-02-01

2008-02-01T14:16:56Z

When 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?

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Comment from Chuck on 2007-07-17

2007-07-17T13:58:40Z

Hi 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

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Comment from Gail E Cristofaro on 2007-07-10

2007-07-10T18:01:00Z

I'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??"

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Comment from john foster on 2007-05-11

2007-05-11T14:14:34Z

hi, i no you can get an icon the way you sugested but how do you get that web pages logo regards john

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Comment from ginny on 2007-02-12

2007-02-12T19:33:11Z

You 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.

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Comment from Len on 2007-01-08

2007-01-09T05:23:49Z

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.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2006-12-26

2006-12-27T06:25:09Z

**Right** click.

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Comment from frances on 2006-12-26

2006-12-27T06:14:45Z

I clicked on my desktop, but could not find "new shorcut",only shortcut comes on, and that does not work

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Comment from Steven on 2006-09-28

2006-09-28T09:21:04Z

Hi Leo, I can get the shortcut to appear on my desktop, but when I click on it I get the error message which says 'this file does not have a program associated with it. Create an association in the Folders Option control panel.' I have tried going in to Folder Options, but I can not find the relevant section ???? I am running windows XP. Steve

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Comment from wabobb on 2006-08-08

2006-08-08T23:47:33Z

I created a shortcut as you instructed. Now I want to use a different icon for the shortcut. How?

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Comment from sadie on 2006-04-26

2006-04-26T12:22:54Z

this page is the most helpful I have found so far, I need to make a desktop icon suitbale for a mac and PC that links straight to my web page. I want to be able to put this onto disc so I can send it out to people to just drag onto their desktop or install. Any suggestions on where I start looking or how I do it?

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Comment from Wood on 2006-03-15

2006-03-16T01:43:12Z

How do you/I get the little thumbnail pictures on the desktop? Is there an ICON Folder somewhere? Sometimes I get the little icon pictures, other times I just get the shortcut with the IE blue E. Can an ICON thumbnail picture be created or copied? Thanks,
Wood

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2005-12-31

2006-01-01T01:31:25Z

To be honest, I'm not sure. I don't know the command line for the MSN browser... if you right click on the MSN Browser Icon and select "Properties", it may include a command line as the "Target". You can try creating a new shortcut, with that followed by a space and the URL you want the shortcut to refer to. Let me know if that works.

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Comment from aardee on 2005-12-31

2005-12-31T19:40:23Z

i used your method described above to make a shortcut to my hotmail....it works.....but it opens in Internet explorer....is there any way to have it open in MSN explorer which I like to use....Thanx....keep up the good work....aardee

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Comment from shrawan kumar on 2005-12-29

2005-12-29T12:19:42Z

this artical helped me.. thanks.. but i wanted to knew more in this issue only. when i do the double-clik on the shorctut created by your procedure it opens in the existing opended webpages. that i don't want. i want to open the shorcurt in a new page. Thanks in advance. Regards. shrawan kumar.

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Comment from annette on 2005-12-24

2005-12-24T19:53:54Z

thanks very simple to follow insructions much needed for a newby like myself

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Comment from it didn't help on 2005-11-27

2005-11-27T21:58:15Z

I'm sorry Leo, but this isn't what I was looking for. You should name this page "Can I make a desktop item for a web page shortcut?". I was looking for a precedure to make an icon.

Bottom line: You should name your pages more appropriately.

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Comment from Leo on 2005-11-13

2005-11-14T04:04:50Z

I'm sorry, but I can't understand what steps you actually took, so I can't tell what happened. I do know that the steps in the article do work, because I did it before publishing the article. What do you mean by "refused to acknowledge it"? Was there an error message, and if so what, exactly, was it?

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Comment from Addie T. VanMatre on 2005-11-13

2005-11-13T16:12:15Z

I'm sorry Leo, but your article did not help me. I tried the first suggestion by clicking right, etc, naming my desktop item as hotmail, but it refused to acknowledge it. The icon that I want is the msn.hotmail icon, which is not located in the box when I click on start. I do have free msn.hotmail, but it isn't even located at the bottom right side of icons that are already there. I recently had my computer repaired, and before that, the butterfly icon did show in both the start box and at the bottom right had corner. And I also have my account which I can only get to by putting www.hotmail.com into the address bar. I don't understand what happened. Can you help me?

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Comment from Kabayashi on 2005-10-13

2005-10-13T07:28:08Z

If you already have an IE window open and you click the shorcut, it will take over that window. Can we make it to open another window?

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Comment from Brian Turner on 2005-05-15

2005-05-15T17:51:55Z

I found this earlier today, I've tried it and it works

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