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| Thread ID: 137073 | 2014-05-21 06:19:00 | New W8, Q3 | Poppa John (284) | Press F1 |
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| 1375385 | 2014-05-21 06:19:00 | Hello again. I haven't yet learned to move & copy files & folders etc. For instance. I have a "News" icon on the desktop to which I want to place selected News programmes. BBC, Herald, Google News, etc. With google I can open the news & read ok. When I click on it I get...Copy Link...Open Link...Open in Browser. I don't see a "Send To" box or Shortcut anywhere. What am I not doing? Thanks. W8 is SOOOO different to XP. I will get there..........Wont I? Incidentally when did XP come on the market? I think I got it 6 months after it came out. Very slow as I only had 265 MB of ram on the mb. Then up to 1GB & it ran ok. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375386 | 2014-05-21 06:45:00 | So you want to create a shortcut to a website on your desktop? And as for the second question, 2001. ;) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1375387 | 2014-05-21 07:30:00 | So you want to create a shortcut to a website on your desktop? And as for the second question, 2001. ;) Yes, to put them there individually then group them under one icon. I could do it easily with XP but haven't worked out how on W8 yet. PJ 2001...Thanks. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375388 | 2014-05-21 07:41:00 | Yes, to put them there individually then group them under one icon. I could do it easily with XP but haven't worked out how on W8 yet. PJ Same way as on XP - right-click desktop, New -> Shortcut, type in the address (with http:// etc) and finish. :) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1375389 | 2014-05-21 09:10:00 | Same way as on XP - right-click desktop, New -> Shortcut, type in the address (with http:// etc) and finish. :) Unfortunately that is what is not happening. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375390 | 2014-05-21 09:21:00 | I've just tried the method pcuser42 mentioned and it works for me on Win8.1 Alternatively, in the browser next to the address bar, to the left of the http:// part there will be a little favicon of the website, you can just drag that to the desktop. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1375391 | 2014-05-21 09:23:00 | Works for me. You can also drag the site icon (to left of www.etc) to the desktop. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1375392 | 2014-05-21 09:35:00 | Alternatively, in the browser next to the address bar, to the left of the http:// part there will be a little favicon of the website, you can just drag that to the desktop. Well, I learned something :D |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1375393 | 2014-05-22 04:56:00 | I've just tried the method pcuser42 mentioned and it works for me on Win8.1 Alternatively, in the browser next to the address bar, to the left of the http:// part there will be a little favicon of the website, you can just drag that to the desktop. On something I want to move, there is NO link as in http etc. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1375394 | 2014-05-22 05:10:00 | Clearly I am missing something or doing something wrong. So I click onto the desktop screen, empty space & goto Select Shortcut. Next I get 'What item would you like to create a shortcut for? Type in the location of the item or browse. What does this mean? On the desktop is an Icon called News. This is where I want to place my popular news programmes. Click onto large Icon screen & select Google Open it & search for Google news. I get Google News NZ & news.google.co.nz. Open the news. Click on page & NO Shoertcut or Sendto boxes. All I can get is...Copy Link...Open Link...Open in Browser. So I open the news ling & get the news. Still NO http link etc. No dropdown box to move things around. Am I missing a setting or something? Please put me out of my misery. Thanks. PJ |
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