Some sites or apps (mainly badly written ones) really only like to open properly in Internet Explorer. However, anyone with half a brain would have ditched IE and set a better browser like FireFox, or my personal favourite, Chrome, as the default – which is great but can cause problems with your desktop shortcuts to web pages.
If you need to create a desktop shortcut to a web page that only works properly in Internet Explorer, you can force it to open in IE by doing the following:
Right click on the desktop and select New -> Shortcut:
Copy and paste this in there:
“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://your_URL_.com
(Remember to change the URL to the one you actually want).
Then click next and then finish and there you go – a working shortcut that opens in the correct browser.
It’s no problem, don’t mention it, I love you too x
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Owww NICE. Thank You.. simple and fast.
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I’ve been following your wetbise closely though I am not a techie but a physician by profession. I’d like to point out that you can launch upto 9 applications from the quick launch menu by hitting Win + (numbers 1-9) The first three ones would be visualized, but from the 4th to the 9th it would be hidden and can still be opened. Try it .Thanks and regards
Didn’t work with chrome as the default browser and trying to set the http address to an internal sharepoint site… :-(
windows appends the “http://” to the path you provided like this:
http://“c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe” http://www.google.com
after i hit apply, and try to double click the shortcut.