How to Create a Shortcut on Desktop in Windows 10 – 2 ways

This article is about how to Create a Shortcut on Desktop in Windows 10. Some programs automatically create desktop shortcuts in Windows 10 after installation, while others do not.

Therefore, sometimes you need to manually create a shortcut for a program / file / folder on the desktop so that you can easily open it.

How to Create a Shortcut on Desktop in Windows 10

Whichever method you use, you must first find the location of the program file/folder/folder where you will create the shortcut.

Method 1
Step 1: On the Windows 10 desktop, right-click on an empty area. Select New > Shortcut.

Right click on Desktop and New Shortcut

Step 2: Manually type the location of the object you want to create a shortcut to in the text field, then click Next. As you can see in the following screenshot, here I am taking the Control Panel as an example.

Type there

You can also click Browse and navigate to the item’s target location. Find a shortcut

Step 3: Enter a name for the shortcut. Then click On. Type a name for the shortcut

Then, the newly created Control Panel shortcut is on the desktop of Windows 10.

Double-click the shortcut so that you can quickly open the Control Panel in Windows 10.

Click finish

Method 2

Step 1: Click File Explorer on the taskbar.

Click File Explorer

Step 2: Click on This PC and browse the file/folder to find the target object you want to create a shortcut to.

Send to desktop

Right-click the item and point to Send to > Desktop (create a shortcut).

In the next screenshot, here I’m taking Command Prompt as an example.

Then you can see newly created cmd shortcut appear on Windows 10 desktop.

Double-click the shortcut to run the command directly or right-click the shortcut and select Run as administrator to run the command directly as an administrator.

Direct shortcut

Above are two ways to create a desktop shortcut in Windows 10.

In fact, it should be like any other Windows.

Here, I take Control Panel and Command Prompt as an example.

You can also do this for programs, files, folders, computers, or Internet addresses.