Create Destop Shortcut For Gmail On How To Create Desktop

Create Destop Shortcut For Gmail On How To Create Desktop

While we already have a page on how to create desktop shortcuts, making a shortcut for Microsoft Edge is a bit more tricky.

The following steps show you how to put a shortcut on your desktop that opens the Microsoft Edge Internet browser.

If so, you might well want to have a convenient shortcut to Gmail on your desktop you know, just like the one that used to go to Outlook Express, all those years ago In fact, for those changing over to an online email system like Gmail from Windows Mail or a similar desktop email app, having an email icon in the task bar is a nice bit of convenience.

Even though it just opens up a browser it still retains some of that offline look and feel which is reassuring and easy to use.

Were using Gmail as its a common example, but this will work if you are using Outlook online, as well.

This will work on any desktop Windows computer, but not phones or tablets.

Click on that option and follow the quick instructions in there the icon should appear on your desktop automatically.

Or you might be able to simply drag the new icon to the task bar and it will stay there.

Right-click on the icon if you want to change its name to Gmail (or something else).

Choose one of those options and Gmail should appear on the taskbar or Start menu automatically.

You can add things to the taskbar so you can easily find them.

If you cant see it, it should pop up when you click the Windows icon at the very bottom left of your screen, or press the Windows key on your keyboard.

There are two stages, and you dont even have to do the second one if you dont want to.

This will work with any website at all, but were using Gmail as an example.

Leave it there, or we suggest drag it to the taskbar (the taskbar is the row of icons at the bottom of the screen that are always there), and thats where it will stay.

Or if your version of Windows supports it, you can sometimes just right click on the icon and get the option to Pin to taskbar or Pin to start menu.

For this post, for example, it will read something like pinkeyegraphics.co.ukputting-gmail-shortcut-desktop If you cant find that or it doesnt work, just type into the Create Shortcut dialogue instead.

It will now work, and if you are happy with how it looks stop now.

You may notice that the icon is not the nice Gmail icon that you usually see.

Its called gmail-icon.ico.

If you know how to do that, go ahead.

If not, follow these instructions (its the same file, so you only need to do one).

In Edge or Internet Explorer, chose Save target as; or in Chrome or Firefox Save link as.

You probably shouldnt save it to the desktop as although it will work, you might mistake the icon file for your new shortcut, because they will look the same.

Why not make a shortcut to Facebook on your desktop Or Twitter Or your local newspaper The first steps above will work for any website, so go ahead and try it.

Just follow the above instructions, using your Outlook email inbox page instead of Gmail.

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