Putting Shortcuts On The Desktop In Windows 10

[jomifl]

Since the official windows help doesn't help and other sites are no better, can anybody who has actually put a shortcut on their desktop in W10 tell me how they did it? much appreciation if you can...

[hc4361]

I have copied the URL in the address bar, right clicked on the desktop and clicked New - Shortcut. Copied the address in to the box and I have a shortcut on my desktop

[Khandro]

In (old) google browser (not chrome) in W10, I have top-right a 3 horizontal bar symbol to the right of the star. If I click on this I get a drop down list of all my favourites. What I want to do is copy this list and all its links into my other browser which is Firefox and in which 'favourites' are called 'bookmarks'.

[hc4361]

This tells you how to do it, Khandro

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-google-chrome

[Khandro]

hc; Thanks, but that's from Google Chrome, which I'm not using, but in explaining it I think I can see where I'm going wrong; My 'favourites' in old-Google are each one simply a file, perhaps if I copy them all into a one new file I can export the lot to Firefox ?

[hc4361]

If you're not using Chrome what are you using?

[Khandro]

As I keep saying, I'm using the ordinary, older, pre-chrome version of Google.

[hc4361]

Is it too obvious to suggest you update to Chrome and then export your bookmarks to FF?

Or save your bookmarks in Google as a HTML document and then import that to FF

Export your bookmarks from Google

Sign-in to Google
Go to http://www.google.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.html. This will download your bookmarks in an HTML file.

[hc4361]

Any chance of a screenshot of your google browser, as I have never seen a pre-Chrome version?

[jomifl]

Hi Khandro, My computer had a senior moment when I posted my reply, I wondered what had happened to it. Obviously no need to re-post it.
I've now come to see these re-installations of software as a spring clean and just re-install things as I need them. It's a bit like tidying drawers, chuck out what you don't want and you lose a third of the contents, empty the drawer and pput back what you want you retain a third. There is some profound cosmic principal operating I'm sure.

[Khandro]

hc; Thanks, I know you are trying hard, but everything you say only works from Chrome. I have been round the houses with this again and again in that I had so much trouble installing Chrome in the language of my choice in the country that I am in, that was why I went in despair to FF.
I think jomifl; ^^ is correct and sums up my predicament well, I shall start to spring clean, and build a new list of favorites from scratch in FF

[jomifl]

OK Beso, I'm with you, I'd forgotten that there are all those other scales superimposed on the chromatic scale.

[jomifl]

^'pologies for erroneous posting

[jomifl]

The RoP
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35983979

[jomifl]

please ignore my above post, somehow it posted itself in the wrong section.

[jomifl]

Just been watching live coverage of the olympic swimming marathon n the beeb yet the results are already in. Somebody is either telling porkies or is a bit slackarsed.