Create a custom internet shortcut on your desktop
Would you like a customized desktop shortcut that will take you directly to a website of your choice? Then follow these steps.
1) Right click on the desktop and select New -> Text Document
2) Rename the text document some meaningful name like VeignBlog.txt
3) Edit the content of the file by opening it in Notepad
4) Add these lines (between the lines)
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[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://veign.com/blog
IconIndex=0
IconFile=c:\somepath\MyIcon.ico
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5) Edit the URL to point to the URL of your choice (I would recommend leaving it pointing my blog)
6) Edit the path to the Icon you want to use. If you dont have one remove the two Icon lines and it will use the default icon for your browser
7) Save and close the file
8) Edit the name of the file changing its extension from .txt to .url
9) Allow the change to happen and you should now have a customized shortcut to a website using an icon of your choice.
1) Right click on the desktop and select New -> Text Document
2) Rename the text document some meaningful name like VeignBlog.txt
3) Edit the content of the file by opening it in Notepad
4) Add these lines (between the lines)
----------------------------------------
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://veign.com/blog
IconIndex=0
IconFile=c:\somepath\MyIcon.ico
----------------------------------------
5) Edit the URL to point to the URL of your choice (I would recommend leaving it pointing my blog)
6) Edit the path to the Icon you want to use. If you dont have one remove the two Icon lines and it will use the default icon for your browser
7) Save and close the file
8) Edit the name of the file changing its extension from .txt to .url
9) Allow the change to happen and you should now have a customized shortcut to a website using an icon of your choice.
(in case you need some icons check out this list of free icon sources)
Labels: windows
posted by Veign at
4:11 PM
4 Comments:
do you know a way to specify a browser? my employer requires me to use IE as my default. I'd love to have an url shortcut open in Firefox. Is there a way?
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rs, at 11:51 AM EST
Not through the URL shortcut.
You would have to create a standard shortcut to the Firefox application and pass the url as a argument.
Something like:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "http:veign.com"
By
Veign, at 12:29 PM EST
thanks a bunch. exactly what I wanted.
By
rs, at 1:21 PM EST
Seems that the two forward slashes where filtered out when the comment was posted. Make sure to include after the http:
By
Veign, at 3:52 PM EST
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