Learn how to create a desktop shortcut to open your favorite application, website, etc, & place it on your Windows 11/10 Desktop or any other folder.

Here's how to create shortcuts in Windows 10. Use them to open your favorite apps, programs, TV shows, movies and games quickly.

To create one of these, you simply click your mouse on the URL in the address bar and drag it to the desktop to create the shortcut.

Shortcuts It’s also easy to create desktop and start menu shortcuts — simply run cmd.exe and wrap the action portion of the command in double quotes.