Creating a Shortcut:Sometimes, you will see an icon with a small arrow in the lower left corner of the icon. This indicates that the icon is only a "shortcut" or pointer file. This icon is not the actual file or folder, but rather it "points" you to that file. You can create a shortcut of almost any file or folder you want. What this does is make it easier to access certain files or folders from different places without having to actually navigate deep into the file system to get to that file or folder. To create a shortcut for a file or folder, you simply right-click on the file or folder and from the menu choose CREATE A SHORTCUT. You will immediately see a copy of the file or folder with the name of "SHORTCUT TO X" with X being whatever the file or folder name is. You can then drag this shortcut file to the desktop or wherever you want to keep it. To give you an example, let's create a shortcut to
the floppy drive in your computer. This is just an example to show you
how easy it is to do.
Sometimes, like when trying to make a shortcut inside of the MY COMPUTER window, you will receive a pop-up window stating that you cannot create a shortcut here, but would you like a shortcut to this item on the desktop? To which you would usually reply "YES".
Then you will see the icon on the desktop with the name "Shortcut To XXXXX" Where X would be the name of the item you just created a shortcut to, in this case it is "Shortcut To 3½ Floppy". You can now rename this icon to whatever you want it to be.
Another variation on that technique is to
right-click on the file you want to create a shortcut for and hold the
mouse button. Then drag the file to wherever you want to place the
shortcut and when you release the right mouse button you will choose
"CREATE A SHORTCUT HERE". I told you that the right-click was
going to come in handy didn't I? |
