Exercise. Unit 3. Creating a Shortcut

Objective.

To practice creating a Shortcut in the Windows XP desktop.

Step by step exercise.

1 Place the pointer on the background of the Windows XP desktop.

2 Right click on the background.

3 Select the option Shortcut from the menu displayed when you click on New.

4 Click Browse to search for the file Internet Explorer.exe

5 Select the unit where the operating system is installed, in our case the unit c.

6 Open folders until you find the file Iexplorer.exe; our file is located in c:/Programs Files/Internet Explorer/

7 Click Ok.

8 Click Next.

9 Change the name to My Explorer.

10 Click Finish.

We have just created a Shortcut to Internet Explorer.