Tips ‘n’ Tricks
Creating a shortcut that will open in a specific browser:
Most people are content with a single web browser. Then there are people who use a multitude of browsers. I tend to use three (IE, Firefox and Opera), but mainly because I need to make sure that a webpage will render properly regardless of the browser. But let’s suppose that there is a particular webpage that I want to launch and have it launch only in IE. Easy-peasy.
- Navigate to wherever you have your browser application installed. In the case of IE, this would be C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.
- Right-click on the executable (iexplore.exe) and select “Copy”.
- Navigate to wherever you want to put the shortcut (like your “Favorites” folder), right-click and select “Paste Shortcut” (it will say “Shortcut to iexplore.exe” or somesuch)
- Right-click the new shortcut and select “Properties”.
- In the “Target” box (which will say something like “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”), place a space after the final quote and then type in the URL of the page that you want to open. Make sure that you include the http:// part.
- Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box.
- Now rename the shortcut (press F2 or right-click and select “Rename”) to something meaningful, like the name of the website and press enter.