Creating Shortcuts

Shortcuts have existed in Windows since its very early versions. A shortcut points to an executable file, a document, or a folder. As the name implies, shortcuts are used to provide a faster way to access these items. Without shortcuts, you would have to browse through all the files on the hard drive each time to locate the one file desired. In this section, you learn to create shortcuts, modify shortcut settings, and add system icons to the Desktop.

Creating a New Desktop Shortcut

Creating a shortcut requires several pieces of information depending on its purpose, but two parameters are required for all shortcuts:

• The location of the item for which you would like to create a shortcut. This would be the folder and filename for the shortcut. For example, it could be C:\Program Files\TheApplication\Application.exe.