How can I have a hotmail shortcut on my desktop?

Question

I know you can since I used to have it, but now I just have an IE shortcut. How do I get one that goes straight to hotmail rather than changing my homepage on ie7 to hotmail? I dont want to have two tabs either since I dont like having tabs open. One window per website is quite enough.

Answer 1

Actually this is probably easier than you think...

Just open up IE and drag the little page icon next to the URL onto your desktop.  It creates a URL shortcut.  You may need to right-click and edit the properties to point to a more valid URL though (like http://www.hotmail.com instead of http://www.hotmail.com?3948!.a&dadp=dads... or whatever)

Answer 2

If you right-click on your desktop and then select "New Shortcut" in the location type in http://www.hotmail.com and then click Next. In the name box put in Hotmail (or whatever you want it to be called) and then click Finish. You should now have a shortcut that leads right to hotmail.  

Answer 3

Create a favorite of the Website and copy it to your desktop

Answer 4

Yep. Just right-click on your desktop, select NEW - SHORTCUT. Type http://hotmail.com, click NEXT, and name it something like "Hotmail" and click Finish. Try it...it's easy!   :)