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Have you ever visited a webpage so much, you wanted to make this a button you can run right from your start menu's program list (just like of the many other programs already in your list)? Well, if you have Internet Explorer 9 and above, now you can. You'll find out how to add it, after following the directions in this article.

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EditSteps

  1. Create a Program‐Like Website Link to Your Windows Start Menu Step 1.png
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    Open your Internet Explorer browser through either the Run command, or a box in the Accessories menu of your Start Menu's programs, or even through the Internet (Internet Explorer box, if the default is set to Internet Explorer), or through one of the many other ways to access Internet Explorer.
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  2. Create a Program‐Like Website Link to Your Windows Start Menu Step 2.png
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    Find out your version number of the Internet Explorer browser you are using. This will only be available to users of a Windows PC on Internet Explorer 9 and above.
  3. Create a Program‐Like Website Link to Your Windows Start Menu Step 3.png
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    Know which Windows Operating System you are currently working on. Adding icons to the Start Menu on a Windows Vista PC will do just that-add shortcut icons to your Start Menu (thereby looking like programs you can launch directly from the Start menu. However, on a Windows 7 and above PC, it will add your icons to a "QuickLinks" like toolbar to the right of the Start Menu.
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    Access a web page that has a non-default Internet Explorer-like "e" icon. Some of the major websites on the net have preferable ones. (Facebook, wikiHow, Yelp, and Digg all have ones.)
    • It's preferable to use ones with different icons, but ones that don't work to, but aren't as beautiful as the non-default icon websites.
  5. Create a Program‐Like Website Link to Your Windows Start Menu Step 5.png
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    Locate the Gears-looking icon from the top-right hand corner of the Internet Explorer program.
  6. Create a Program‐Like Website Link to Your Windows Start Menu Step 6.png
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    Click the Gears icon.
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    Click "File" menu.
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    Click "Add site to Start menu". This will bring up a dialog box asking you to verify what you'd like to use this icon for. Although at first it won't allow you to change the icon's name you can Rename a Program on the Start Menu quite easily.
    • Open the Start Menu.
    • Open the "All programs" area of your Start menu.
    • Right click the text portion of the link you'd like to Edit
    • Click "Rename"
    • Make the edits you want to use for the name to meet your standards.
    • Press ↵ Enter when you are finished.
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    Make the edits to the link you want to use.
  10. Create a Program‐Like Website Link to Your Windows Start Menu Step 10.png
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    Click the "Add" box as soon as the link is ready.
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EditTips

  • Realize that you can pin these items to your Start menu, just like you would have with other programs on the Start menu's programs list, by following the same rules.
  • Realize that if the icon to the link gets changed at any point, the icon that was initially created will also permanently change, so don't try changing the icon that is there unless you have saved the icon to another storage location.
  • Some links within the Internet get removed over time. If you fear that the link will get removed, make a backup copy as a Shortcut on another backup drive. Use this backup drive to test the site in question, when the link doesn't open to the necessary site one day.

EditThings You'll Need

  • Windows 7 or Windows Vista computer
  • Internet Explorer 9
  • computer mouse and keyboard

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