It is an icon on your computer desktop to go to a application or file on your computer. Some common examples for a Vista is: * internet Explorer * Recycle Bin * HP Total Care Advisor * HP Solution Center * Help and Support Center
A desktop shortcut is an icon that you can click on that will open a program/file that is located in some other part of the hard drive, instead of having to navigate to its location first.
Shortcuts
No, your desktop is where you put your shortcuts to computer programs.
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Yes. It is good for storing desktop shortcuts or programs when you have no room on your desktop.
Whichever ones make your life the easiest.
To Eliminate desktop Clutter. Windows XP periodically moves unused desktop icons into a folder named Unused Desktop Shortcuts.
In the Windows operating system, desktop icons are shortcuts to programs that you can execute. To find out the program associated with an icon, right click on the icon and select Properties in the menu. In the dialog that pops up check the Location field.
You cannot have a shortcut because it is not a desktop application. However you can have a Bookmark of it. Bookmarks serve the same purpose as shortcuts.
Add the shortcuts to programs while you are logged in to the account.
Start - > Drag what you need from here onto your desktop to create shortcuts. Then from My coputer -> C: "or your main hard drive" my programs, open the program folder that you want on desktop and drag the executable files ".exe" to desktop to create shortcuts. Once you get what you want on desktop right click on your desktop -> Arrange Icons by-> Name or w.e to make it nice and neat ^-^ Hope this helps
Most of them are. Of course you can put an executable file on the desktop, but the operating system does not that. It creates shortcuts.
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