Web shortcut producer May 7th 2006

What's it good for? This online service creates shortcuts to web pages with embedded icons. The shortcuts do not have an arrow in the corner, because they are tiny executables. If you are an internet user, you can create custom shortcuts for your favorite websites and place them directly on desktop. Download example shortcut to this page: Icon Shortcut Maker.exe (see preview on the image ->)

How to use it?

1. If you want to use custom icon instead of one of the stock icons, you need to have this icon on your computer and its size must be less than 50 kB.
2. Choose a stock icon or click the "Browse..." button and navigate to your own icon.
3. Type the address of the web page for which you want to make the shortcut into the "Address" box.
4. Click the "Save shortcut" button and place the file on your desktop or another suitable location.
5. Rename the shortcut.

Stock icons:
Custom icon:
Address:

How does it work?

This service produces a tiny Windows exe file containing the specified icon and the address of a web page. When the application is run, it opens the web page in the default web browser.

Is it safe?

Running executable files downloaded from internet may be dangerous and shortcuts created by this service are executable files. We guarantee that the shortcut files do exactly what is described on this page and nothing else, but we recommend you to check them with your antivirus anyway.

Info for webmasters

If you are a webmaster, you may prepare shortcuts with icons for your visitors and let them download the shortcuts from your web pages.

If you like this service, please consider linking to this page and recommending it to your friends.

Geting icons for your shortcuts

• Visit our library of free icons.
• Visit sites in our directory of clipart.
• Create your own icons in our professional icon maker.
• Contact us and we will create an icon for you.

Recent comments

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Anonymous on October 3rd 2011

Brian ~ I want to name this link ?

schadam2011 registered user on October 4th 2011

I am using all kinds of files of pictures on this but all it comes up with is ' Invalid icon file'. What am I doing wrong?

Vlasta site administrator on October 4th 2011

You need an actual .ico file - use for example the image to icon converter to get one.

Anonymous on October 31st 2011

good thing , thx

Anonymous on November 5th 2011

good one

Anonymous on November 22nd 2011

hi this is very helpful for me,and can i use this exe for mac to install icon,otherwise please help me

Vlasta site administrator on November 22nd 2011

No, it does not work on Mac.

Anonymous on January 4th

this page does not convert *.png to *.ico file, when creating a custom icon.
please solve this problem.

Anonymous on January 4th

I get the error "shortcut.exe is not a valid Win32 application"

Anonymous on January 27th

Is there any software in which this function can be performed

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