How to Create a Character Map Shortcut on Your Windows 10 Desktop – 3 tips

This article is about How to Create a Character Map Shortcut on Your Windows 10 desktop.

• By default, character maps have no shortcuts on the Windows desktop.
• If you often want to open and use character maps, we recommend that you create a shortcut for character maps on your Windows 10 desktop so that you can quickly and easily use the app.

Most importantly, creating a character map shortcut on Windows 10 desktop is also helpful for novice computer users who don’t know how to find the character map application. Therefore, this article briefly explains how to create desktop map shortcuts in Windows 10.

3 Ways to Create Character Map Shortcuts on Your Windows 10 Desktop

• Method 1: Add character map shortcut to desktop
• Method 2: Send character map shortcut to desktop
• Method 3: send charmap shortcut to desktop and rename it as charactermap

Method 1: Add character map shortcut to Windows 10 desktop

Step 1: Go to Windows 10 desktop.

Step 2: Right-click on an empty area of ​​the desktop and select New > Shortcut from the context menu. select new and shortcut

Step 3: When the Create Shortcut wizard opens, type the command C:\Windows\System32\Charmap.exe in the location box and click Next to continue.

Step 4: For easy identification of Character Map shortcut, you can change its name to Character Map and click Finish to create a shortcut for Character Map on Windows 10 desktop.

Rename it to character map

Method 2: Send character map shortcut to Windows 10 desktop

Step 1: Enter the character map in the search box on the taskbar, right-click the character map that appears in the result list, and select Open file location from the drop-down menu.

Go to character map

Tip: You can also click the Start button > Windows Tools > Character Map > More > Open file location. press the start button

Step 2: A file browser window will open, right-click the character map shortcut, select Send to > Desktop (create shortcut) from the submenu menu.

As you can see, the character map shortcut appears on the Windows 10 desktop.

Method 3: send charmap shortcut to desktop and rename it as charactermap

Step 1: Open File Explorer in Windows 10.

Step 2: In the File Explorer window, go to Local Disk (C:) > Windows > System32.

go to System32

Step 3: In the System32 folder, scroll to the app icon and right-click it to select Send to > Desktop (create shortcut) from the context menu.

Step 4: After the chamap shortcut is successfully created, it will appear on your Windows 10 desktop.

You can right-click on it and select the Rename option to rename it on the Character Map so you can easily launch it next time.