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Drag the tiny icon at the left end of the address bar onto the

desktop or into a window.

Tip
This also works with websites. If your browser has pulled up a site you want to keep handy, drag
that little address-bar icon onto your desktop. Double-clicking it later will open the same web
page.

You can delete a shortcut the same way as any icon, as described in the
Recycle Bin discussion on “The Recycle Bin”. (Of course, deleting a

shortcut doesn’t delete the file it points to.)

Unveiling a Shortcut’s True Identity

To locate the original icon from which a shortcut was made, right-click the

shortcut icon and choose Properties from the shortcut menu. As shown in
Figure 3-10, the resulting box shows you where to find the “real” icon. It
also offers you a quick way to jump to it, in the form of the Open File

Location button.

Shortcut Keyboard Triggers

Sure, shortcuts let you put favored icons everywhere you want to be. But

they still require clicking to open, which means taking your hands off the
keyboard—and that, in the grand scheme of things, means slowing down.

Lurking within the Shortcut Properties dialog box is another feature with

intriguing ramifications: the “Shortcut key” box. By clicking here and then
pressing a key combination, you can assign a personalized keystroke for the
shortcut. Thereafter, by pressing that keystroke, you can summon the

corresponding file, program, folder, printer, networked computer, or disk
window to your screen, no matter what you’re doing on the PC. It’s really

useful.

Three rules apply when choosing keystrokes to open your favorite icons: