Instead of bookmarking a website, you can drag the URL directly to your desktop. Bookmarks are great, don’t get us wrong, but sometimes you might want to keep a link handy in order to get to it quickly, without even having your browser open. Or, you might only want to keep that site around for a day or two and a bookmark seems too permanent. Either way, here’s how you do it:

Whatever browser you use, there is an address line across the top, the one that contains the URL of the website, basically the http://www.suchandsuch.com letters. In the far left corner of that line is some type of icon. All you have to do is drag that icon to your desktop. Once you do that, all you have to do is double click the icon to get to that site again. This is a picture of what you have to drag to your desktop:

This is the same as a shortcut, just double click and the page will open in your default browser. This is a quick and easy way to get to a page almost instantly.

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