TIP OF THE WEEK

Customize your Desktop with icons pointing to your favorite websites. (These instructions are for Windows XP)

First, drag and drop any unused desktop icons into the Recycle Bin. (Don’t worry…You’re not deleting any programs or files when you do this. Just putting “things” away, off your desk!)

If there’s a website you go to every day or so, make it easy for yourself by putting an icon on your desktop that will take you directly to that site. Here’s how.

1. Open Internet Explorer (not Mozilla) and find a favorite website (or page within a website) either using a previously made “Bookmark” or typing in the URL.
2. Now from the Menu Bar click on “File” and mouse down to “Send” .
3. A new drop down will open and you can click on “Shortcut to Desktop”.
4. That’s it! Now when you look at your desktop there will be a new icon that will point directly to your favorite website.

You can use the Rename function if you want to give it a better (shorter) name and you can change the icon picture too. We’ll cover that in another lesson.