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1. #HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC HOW TO#
2. #HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC MAC OS X#
3. #HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC UPDATE#
4. #HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC TV#

#HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC UPDATE#

Placing a shortcut to Windows Update on your desktop is one of the quickest ways to get where you're going.

#HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC HOW TO#

How to create a Windows Update shortcut on your desktop Windows Update will now show up as a tile in your Start menu. It looks like a small gear and is located above the power button. Here's how to do it.Ĭlick the Settings button. Right-click on the Folder, File, or Application you'd like to create a shortcut for on the left. You can easily add a Windows Update shortcut to your Start menu if you'd like to keep your desktop uncluttered. Click on the Finder icon at the bottom left of the screen (the leftmost icon in the Dock). How to create a Windows Update shortcut in your Start menu

To make it easier to get to Windows Update, you can create a shortcut that takes you straight to where you want to go. Go ahead, try it! Just remember that when you open the alias, you’ll actually be in the original folder.Windows 10 will keep itself updated on its own most of the time, but some people like to go into settings and tweak what gets updated and when. Now you can now rename the shortcut and drag it anywhere you want. For a website shortcut, highlight the URL and drag and drop it from the address bar to the desktop. You know it’s an alias because it has a little arrow on its icon. Right-click (or Control + Click) on the file and select Make Alias from the menu. You’ll know the folder is selected when it’s highlighted, as shown below.įrom the File menu, select Make Alias, as shown below. Select the folder by clicking on it once. Open the Finder, and then navigate to the folder you want to create an alias of. Here’s how to make an alias (shortcut) on your Mac: You can then drag the alias to the Desktop. To make an alias to a folder, highlight the folder and press Command + L. There is no 'My Computer' folder in OS X. That way they can quickly access the folder without having to open a new Finder window and navigate to it. The Ivory Tower (I'm not coming down) May 29, 2010. Many people create aliases for their most commonly used folders, such as Documents or Applications, and move those aliases to the Desktop. It’s literally a shortcut to a different directory on your Mac. My goal is to demonstrate how to create a web page shortcut that is easily identifiable.

Slightly longer method: 1) Go to applications folder. 2) Drag an application from here onto the Mac desktop to create its shortcut icon.

#HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC MAC OS X#

Have you ever needed, or just wanted, to make a shortcut icon on the the desktop in Mac OS X Honestly it’s relatively trivial to do but the result isn’t always what people expect. How to create app icons on Mac desktop and folders The easy way: 1) open that applications folder and make sure it doesn’t take up the entire screen. An alias looks like a folder, but when you double click it, you open the actual folder it points to. Creating web shortcuts on the Mac OS X desktop. However, there is an additional way to create folder and app shortcuts on Mac. If you’ve ever wished you could have a single folder in two different places at once, you should consider creating an alias, which is known as a shortcut on Windows-based operating systems. bashprofile might really be where all the magic happens for creating shortcut commands in the Terminal If you’re sort of familiar with the general Unix command line commands that allow you to navigate through your machine via the Terminal, then creating aliases will help optimize your navigation process It’s pretty easy, too. Create Desktop Shortcuts on Mac Using Drag and Drop. How to Make an Alias (Shortcut) on a Mac.

#HOW TO CREATE A SHORTCUT ON DESKTOP MAC TV#

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