IF YOU DON’T GET IT OR CAN’T MAKE IT WORK, PLEASE DON’T WRITE TO ME. I AM NOT AN EXPERT AND CAN’T HELP. FEEL FREE TO WRITE TO ME AND SAY THANK YOU.

* Right click on desktop
* Select new/shortcut from dropdown menu
* A dialog box appears entitled WHAT ITEM…
* Pick any file or folder
* Click next
* Name the shortcut
* Click Finish

A shortcut icon by that name appears on your desktop

* Right click on the shortcut icon
* Click properties on dropdown menu
* Insert code (below) in target box
* Click OK

This is the code you will need. Include all quotation marks. All code should be on a single line (your browser may show it on two lines)

WEBSITE EXAMPLE
“C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” “https://YOURWEBSITE.com”
(Note: this is the standard location for the Chrome app. YMMV. If you use some other browser, figure out the path to the .exe file. If you can’t do that, give up)

FOLDER EXAMPLE
C:\Windows\explorer.exe C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME HERE\FOLDERNAME

NO questions; this is as much as I know. It requires a certain level of sophistication. I may have left some instructions out because they are intuitively obvious to me.