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Profile	Posted by	Options	Post Date
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 2 Send Message	Fred	Report	30 Jul 2016 00:56
Member Since: June 2008 Posts: 2 Send Message	Recently rejoined and cannot remember how to put the GR icon on my desktop. So far I have to go through the home page etc etc and then and only then do I get into my tree. Any help appreciated Fred Pendlebury
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,649 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	30 Jul 2016 01:26
	I've only added mine to 'favourites', so I don't have to log in.
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	30 Jul 2016 06:02
	Browse to the file on your hard disk for which you want to create a shortcut. ... Right-click the file for which you want to create a shortcut. Select Create Shortcut from the menu. ... Drag the shortcut to the desktop or any other folder. Rename the shortcut.
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: November 2011 Posts: 3,256 Send Message	Graham	Report	31 Jul 2016 11:25
	Right click anywhere on your desktop. Click on "create shortcut". It'll ask you to enter the location of what it is you want a shortcut to. Just enter the web address for GR.