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   gwtc to sherwindu   
   Re: Activating netscape from the desktop   
   03 Aug 06 22:38:43   
   
   From: TheNewGWTC@rcnpfgra.gra   
      
   sherwindu wrote:   
   > I am running Windows 2000 and Netscape 7.1.  There is a certain web site I   
   would   
   > like to access frequently.  I currently do it using a bookmark.  I thought I   
   > might streamline that by somehow putting the access to it via an icon on the   
   > desktop.  I got nowheres fast.  Is it possible to do it, and how?  I also   
   had a   
   > devil of a time changing   
   > the icon from a Netscape icon to another more meaningfull one.  Windows 2000   
   > would not let me change the icon.  If I created another shortcut to the icon   
   on   
   > the   
   > desktop, there was an option to change the icon.  Both the original icon and   
   > it's shortcut did get me to the web site, but the hot keys at that site were   
   > inoperatable.   
   > Kind of stuck now, so I may have to get by using the bookmark.   
   >   
   >                                              Sherwin D.   
   >   
   Go to the website in question, then in the address bar, you will see a   
   little icon at the beginning.  Move your mouse over until it turns to   
   a hand, click and drag that hand to the desktop and let go.  Now you   
   have a desktop shortcut.   
      
   --   
   Maxims for the Internet Age:  A journey of a thousand sites begins   
   with a single click.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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