In this tutorial I’ll show you how to be more efficient by teaching you how to manage your shortcuts.

What are shortcuts used for?

Every time you install a new software, windows places a shortcut on your Desktop, Quick Launch toolbar or Start Menu. Whenever you click on the shortcut, you application will open. As the name suggests, shortcuts are a shorter route to programs, files, folders, printer and other devices, web addresses, etc...

What shortcuts to create?

There’s no point in creating shortcuts for every single program or folder on your computer. Here are some tips that will give you an idea of what kind of shortcuts you should create:

• A frequently used folder
• A frequently used software
• A frequently used document
• Frequently used Control Panel features – tired on clicking the headings and subheading in Control Panel to get where you want? Just create a shortcut.

How to create a shortcut

There are a lot of ways to create a shortcut, but I’ll only show you two:

1. The easiest way to create a shortcut is to drag and drop the item you want to create a shortcut to on the Desktop

2. Another way of creating a shortcut is to right click the item you want to create a shortcut to, click Send to... and select Desktop

To create a shortcut for a webpage, in the browser, go to the webpage you want to create a shortcut to. Drag the small icon on the left of the webpage address to the desktop.

Rename and delete a shortcut.

To rename a shortcut right click on it, select Rename, modify the name and click Enter.

To delete a shortcut, right click on it, select Delete and click Yes