How to Put Your Favorite Websites on Your Desktop, Taskbar, or Start Menu
Note: This tip was written for the Chrome browser on Windows 10 and Windows 11. We’ve also added instructions for Microsoft Edge. If you’re using Firefox, IE, Opera, Brave, or other browsers, you can drag the URL from the address bar to your desktop.
If you use Chrome and you’d like to put a shortcut on your desktop or taskbar to Facebook, Gmail, Outlook.com, Twitter, Cloudeight InfoAve, or any of your favorite sites, it’s super easy to do.
In Chrome, visit the site you want to create a shortcut to. Click on the Settings icon (3 vertical dots) at the top right corner of Chrome. Click “More tools” then click “Create shortcut…”. That’s it!
For this tip, I’ve added three of the sites I visit most often: Outlook.com, Gmail, and Cloudeight InfoAve…
And there they are. I named them as I wanted – but you can leave the names as they are or change them to whatever you want by right-clicking on the file and choosing “Rename”. BONUS MINI-TIP! if you want a fast, easy way to rename a file or folder, highlight it and press the F2 key.
Now if I want any of those shortcuts on my taskbar, all I have to do is right-click on one and choose “Add to taskbar”. See?
I’ve added Cloudeight InfoAve Tips & Tricks website and the Gmail account I used most to my taskbar. It’s quick and easy. Try it! You can also right-click on the shortcut and choose “Pin to Start” which pins the shortcut to your Windows 10 Start menu.
Here is our InfoAve site on my Windows 10 Start menu.
And here is Cloudeight InfoAve Tips and Tricks website on the Windows 11 Start Menu.
And don’t forget you can easily move the icons around the start menu to get them in the order you want them in simply by dragging and dropping.
If you’re using Edge on Windows 10 or Windows 11 you can do this. Click on the 3-horizontal dots “hamburger” icon in the top right corner of Edge. Scroll down the menu that appears and click “More tools”. You can then select “Pin to taskbar” or “Pin to Start”.
I have a question for you can you make Window 11 look like Windows 10? I am going to install Windows 11 on my Sister in laws computer and she would like to know if this can be done. Thank for all that you do for us, you are the best!
We currently don’t offer this service because it requires us to install a program that is not free. However, you can use our page here to make a Windows 11 computer work and look a bit more like Windows 11 – but not nearly as much as we could make Windows 10 look like Windows 7.