How to Add a Website Link to the Start Menu
A start menu link to a website you visit often can save time and steps. Instead of opening your Internet browser and navigating to the website link, you can just click on one icon to open it automatically. There is more than one way to add a website link to the start menu. Two methods are listed below.
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Instructions
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Add a link from Internet Explorer
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Open Internet Explorer. You have to use Internet Explorer to create the shortcut. Once it's created, it will open in your default browser.
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Type the name of the website you want to link to in the browser box. Click on "Favorites" from the menu. Click "Add to favorites."
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Click "Favorites." Click on the link you just added.
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Hold down the left mouse key. Drag the "favorite" to the start button. You will see the link as an item in your start button.
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Right click the shortcut and select "Remove from this list" to delete the shortcut from your start menu.
Add a Link with Registry Editor version 5.0
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Click on the start button. Click "Programs," "Accessories" and then "Notepad."
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Type or cut and paste "[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}]
@="website link" " into the notepad screen. Replace "website link" with the name you want for your shortcut. Hit enter to make a space. -
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Enter "[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon]
@="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\shell32.dll,-47" " on the next line. -
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Copy or type "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
"CLSID"="{13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000}" " -
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Hit the enter key. Type ""method"="ShellExecute" ". Hit the enter key again. Type " "Command"="link" ".
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Press the enter key. Type ""Param1"=" followed by the URL of the website you want to appear in the start menu. Put quotes around the name of the URL.
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Click "File" and then "Save as." Type "link.reg" in the file name box.
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Browse to the folder where you saved "link.reg." Right click on the "link.reg" file. Choose "Merge" from the menu.
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Comments
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mammananny
Nov 14, 2008
i Have use this website many times,after exhausting myself everwhere else. If you are handicapped, disabled and have a fixed income...this is the place to go. My computer is my line to the outside world, not many give help without making me feel like a loser when I can't but their products. Thank you. mammananny -
mammananny
Nov 14, 2008
i Have use this website many times,after exhausting myself everwhere else. If you are handicapped, disabled and have a fixed income...this is the place to go. My computer is my line to the outside world, not many give help without making me feel like a loser when I can't but their products. Thank you. mammananny
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Isyai
Oct 28, 2008
Good tips.
