A computer shortcut is a file serving as a pointer to an object, program or command. In other words, using a shortcut, there is no need to look for a file / program to run it, just click on the shortcut on the desktop and the file / program will be launched. There are shortcuts that are originally present in the Windows system - these are Computer / My Computer, Network / Network Places and Basket... By default, when installing the system, only a shortcut appears on the desktop Basket, the rest of the shortcuts must be brought to the desktop manually, this will be discussed in this article.

How to display the shortcut My Computer and Network Neighborhood on the desktop in Windows XP.

Right-click on an empty area of ​​the desktop, select " Properties".

In the opened window Properties: Screen, go to the " Desktop"and press the button" Desktop customization".

In the window Desktop elements in field Desktop icons put a checkmark in front of the labels of interest to us (or remove, if it is necessary to delete the label). Click " OK".

After that, all the shortcuts that you have marked with a tick will appear on your desktop.

How to display the shortcut My Computer and Network Neighborhood on the desktop in Windows 7 Professional / Professional, Enterprise / Corporate, Ultimate / Ultimate / Windows 8.

Right-click on free space desktop, select " Personalization".

In the personalization window that opens, select " Change desktop icons".

In the window Desktop icon options in field Desktop icons select the shortcuts we are interested in and put a checkmark in front of them (or uncheck the box to remove shortcuts from the desktop). Click " OK".

After this procedure, changes will take place on the desktop according to your settings.

How to display the shortcut My Computer and Network Neighborhood on the desktop in Windows 7 Home Basic / Home Basic, Home Premium / Home Premium, Starter / Initial.

At home Windows versions 7, buttons " Personalization"Unfortunately, no, and the above method will not help.

In order to display the Computer shortcut on the desktop, you need to click the " Start", right-click on" A computer"and choose" Display on Desktop".

After this simple procedure, the shortcut A computer will appear on the desktop.

To display network connection on the desktop, you must click "Start" - "Control Panel".

In the Control Panel window, select View: Small icons, right click on Network and Sharing Center and select " Create shortcut".

After that, a shortcut for Network Connections will appear on the desktop.

How to create shortcuts for installed programs.

In order to create a shortcut of any installed program, you need to go " Start- All Programs"select the program you are interested in, right-click on it and select" Send - To Desktop (Create Shortcut)".

I really hope that thanks to this article you will make the necessary shortcuts and will spend less time launching the applications you need.

If the shortcuts from the desktop have disappeared, the user experiences a huge inconvenience. Finding all programs through "Start" is very long and inconvenient. It is better to understand the causes of the problem and solve it. Mostly, the fix is ​​easy to use: tweak the registry, display the desktop, or use a special utility. Now about everything in order.

There are a couple of possible reasons why shortcuts have completely disappeared in Windows.

Desktop crash

An accidental system crash could well provoke the erasure of all shortcuts from the desktop. Perhaps incorrect settings are being used or a failure occurred during the installation of updates, connecting a second monitor. Another common problem is the crash of the "Explorer" process, which is responsible for displaying the desktop.

Viruses

It is difficult to imagine an area of ​​the system where a virus could not get through. In this case malware can delete shortcuts, rename them, or hide them. Any of the manifestations of viruses must be eliminated, but it makes sense to do this only after deleting the malicious code.

How to recover desktop shortcuts and icons

Time to consider 4 main ways to get shortcuts back to their rightful place in Windows.

Desktop settings

The easiest option to solve is that the display of shortcuts is simply disabled. It only takes a couple of seconds to turn them on:

1. right-click on the desktop;
2. move the cursor to the line "View" and check the box "Show desktop icons".

System Restore

There is a computer encountered a problem recently and there is a restore point, you can roll back all recent changes. The only condition is that you have a disk with the Windows distribution kit.

how roll back Windows 10:

1. insert a disk or USB flash drive with Windows;
2. restart the computer, and at the time of startup, press F9 or another button to go to the "Boot menu" (the tip is at the bottom);
3. select a device with a Windows distribution for launch;
4. in the blue window with the "Install" button in the center of the screen, select "System Restore";
5. in the next window select "Diagnostics", and then - "System Restore";
6. find a suitable rollback point and activate it.

Using the registry

A couple of parameters are responsible for displaying shortcuts in the registry. It is worth checking that they are installed correctly and changing them in case of incorrect installation.

Algorithm of actions:

1. to push "Win + R" and introduce "Regedit";
2. go along the way "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / WindowsNT / CurrentVersion / Winlogon /";
3. double click on "Shell" and make sure it is installed "Explorer.exe";

So, this article is for novice PC users, it will tell in detail how to display a shortcut of any program or game on the desktop from the Start menu, any folder, or even save any Internet page as a shortcut on the desktop, as well as get rid of from boring names and images of labels, believe me, all this is not difficult at all.

How to display a shortcut from the All Programs menu

Let's start, perhaps, by creating a shortcut from the main menu - the Start menu. The main menu itself is a tree of folders and files that display the programs installed on your computer.

Highlighted items mean that you have recently installed these programs on your computer and have not yet used them enough times. Let's take a shortcut of one of these programs to the desktop, because it is inconvenient to scroll through countless programs every time in search of the desired shortcut. So, let's begin.

We open the main menu by clicking on the characteristic button "Start" in the lower left corner, the most popular programs are located immediately here, in a prominent place, but if the program is recently installed, then it is not here yet, so you will have to click the "All Programs" button. The menu opens again containing the full list of programs, scroll down the scroll bar until we find the desired folder in which the coveted file is located.

There is an arrow opposite the folder name, it means that the folder contains attached files, one of which has long been allocated space on your desktop. We hover the mouse cursor just over this very arrow, a menu opens, in which there may also be various folders and files, one of which we need.

After you have found the desired file, click on it with the right button, it appears context menu, which is also full of various points, some of them even with arrows. But don't get lost, just follow the path: send, desktop (create a shortcut). And finally, we have achieved the task, by clicking on any free space, we will make sure that our shortcut appears on the desktop. It's not that difficult!

If you cannot find the program you need in the Windows Main Menu

We continue our training. Now we need to create a shortcut not from the Start menu, but from a folder. No tragedy, everything is simple here too. We open the required folder, find the required file, perform the algorithm already known to us: call the context menu by right-clicking, hover the cursor over the send message, select the item “Desktop (create a shortcut)”.

How to change the name of a desktop icon

But suddenly, we realize that the file on the desktop has a bad name. Not at all what we expected. Don't worry, there is a way out. Renaming a file is one of the most mundane, everyday tasks. Right-click on the desired file and select “Rename” in the context menu. We erase the old name, enter a new one. Hooray, one more task is completed!

Now the label has a nice name but boring and commonplace image. Let's change it to any picture stored on the computer. Right-click on the already well-known file and right-click to bring up the context menu.

In the context menu, select the item "Properties"... A small window opens with many tabs. Tabs can be changed by clicking on the corresponding names at the top of the window. Selecting a tab "label", by the way, it opens by default. On this tab we see the image of the file, some of its parameters, as well as three buttons at the bottom: "File location", "Change icon ..." and "Additionally…".

As you most likely guessed, you need to click on the button to change the icon. Another window opens, where you can select an image of the label from the existing ones, but since we have already selected a picture for the label, we click on the button "Overview…"... Here you will have to open the folder in which the desired picture is located, then click on the button "Open"... The picture changes. We just have to keep it all. With the "OK" button.

How to display a site shortcut on the desktop

Well, now, let's say, we were looking at a page on the Internet, we liked it very much, we want to come back to it again and again. You can, of course, add it to your favorites, but searching among all the sites marked with a yellow asterisk is also quite problematic, so we will create a shortcut for it on the desktop.

At your discretion, it will be possible to change its image and name according to the algorithm described above, and you will not confuse it with anything. So, let's begin. Let's open a browser, if you are a novice user, then most likely you have a browser called “ Internet Explorer”Because it is put together with operating system... In the browser we find the menu bar, select the “File” menu, in the appeared menu, as well as in the context menu, hover the cursor over the “Send” item, in the expanded menu it remains only to click “Shortcut to the desktop”. That's all, our mission has been accomplished, and you thought it was not feasible. Thanks for attention.

To provide yourself with quick access to any file, folder or program, you can make a shortcut (link). Then you can start the program with one click of the mouse directly from the desktop, or open a folder or file. How do I set a shortcut to my desktop? Let's figure it out.

Create a shortcut in a straightforward way

Direct route means directly from the storage location desired file or folders.

1. We find on our computer the folder we are interested in (document, program).
2. Click on its image with the right mouse button.
3. In the window that opens, select the "Create shortcut" menu item and click on it with the left mouse button.
4. In the same folder (possibly next to the right document) a shortcut appears. It will look the same as the icon of the file itself, but with an arrow in the lower left corner of the new icon.
5. Drag the created shortcut to the desktop.

How to create a shortcut in a workaround way

In this way, you can create a shortcut to a file or directly from the desktop.

1. On the desktop, in any empty space, right-click.
2. In the window that opens, select the "Create" menu item. In the new window that opens, select the "Shortcut" menu item - another window will open.
3. Next to the empty line of this window, we see the "Browse" button, and find the file (folder) we are interested in.
4. Left-click on this file so that it is highlighted with a marker and press the "OK" button.
5. An empty line will contain the path to the document.
6. Press the "Next" button and enter the name of the shortcut.
7. Click on the "Finish" button - a shortcut will appear on the desktop.

That's all the wisdom. If something remains unclear, read the article

Many of us open pages of social networks even more often than search engines Google and Yandex. So why launch a browser and scroll through bookmarks when you can open your favorite social network right from your desktop? In this article I will tell you how to bring the Odnoklassniki icon to the desktop and make a "correct" shortcut to it. We read the article and make sure: it's not difficult at all.

Step 1. Display the classmates icon on the desktop

This can be done in two ways: one is simpler than the other.

Method 1 display the classmates icon on the desktop

1. On the desktop, open the context menu by right-clicking;
2. We use the option "Create" - "Shortcut";
3. The window "For which element do you need to create a shortcut?" / Paste in the address bar http://ok.ru/ and click "Next";
4. We are asked to enter the name of the shortcut. Let's not be original and type "Odnoklassniki". We click "Finish".

Do you think it couldn't be easier? We read the following method.

Method 2 add a shortcut classmates to the desktop

1. Launch the browser and open the page in it social network Classmates;
2. To add a shortcut Odnoklassniki to the Desktop, click on the page icon in the address bar and drag it to the desktop. In the browser Google chrome it will look like this:

And in Mozilla Firefox a little differently:

Regardless of the method you choose, the result is the same: the Odnoklassniki shortcut appeared on the desktop.

Step 2. Make the right shortcut

We coped with the task of placing a bookmark on classmates on the desktop. But the shortcut looks uncharacteristic: it is easy to lose it among files, folders and icons. Therefore, we transform the shortcut classmates on the desktop.

1. First, we need an image that we will convert to an icon. I advise you to use the picture from the title of this article: right-click on it to bring up the context menu and use the "Save As" option;
2. Go to the Convertico service page and click Browse in the Select File From Your Computer line. We indicate the path to the picture "Classmates" on the hard disk and click "Go";
3. A link to a ready-made icon will appear in the right part of the window. Click on the "Download" button and save the image to your computer;
4. We return to the desktop. Right-click on the Odnoklassniki shortcut to open the context menu and select the "Properties" option. We are interested in the "Change Icon" button - click on it. Now we click "Browse" and specify the path to the file of our icon. Found it? Click "OK" and "Apply".

Done: the shortcut classmates is on the desktop, and thanks to the new icon it will definitely not get lost among the icons of programs and browsers.