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 9th 2012

Be really good if you would make the URL parsing optional so that a local DFS path could be used instead of a web location.

Twe registered user on November 8th 2012

H y vla t

Anonymous on December 4th 2012

It is very help full for giving it to client for accessing website, oood one

Anonymous on December 30th 2012

Best one for creating website shortcuts

Anonymous on March 18th

The best! But its more better if you have shortcut for MAC

LoganDark registered user on April 5th

Nope. Macs are stupid. Get a life and understand that mac mouses make your cursor go SO SLOW I CAN'T STAND MACS

Elroacho registered user on April 21st

Anonymous on April 22nd

Hey vlasta i there any online program creator

Len67894,Guest

Anonymous on April 23rd

nah u can get free stuff for mobile

jojois74 registered user on June 8th

It doesn't let me delete the .exe because once I use it it remains open (not good!). I had to go into task manager to end the process and even then it said something like "operation not valid for this process". It did end it though, and I was able to delete it. Any way not to make the process remain open after use because people might have lots of these running and I know it's not a very big process but still?

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