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What is the basic difference between shortcuts and icons?
An icon is the picture that decorates a shortcut. The shortcut is a path to a file.
What is a shortcut?
A shortcut is a link, displayed the same as a file or folder, which, when you click on, takes you to a specified page or file in a different location.
What is the deference between 5 and .5?
Not sure about deference, but the difference is 4.5
Is an icon on the desktop that provides a user with immediate access to a program or file.?
shortcut
What is deference between stomach?
between stomach and what?
How do you convert a shortcut file into a normal file so it can be opened as I keep getting the message that this shortcut has been moved and I cannot open my files I created in Open Office of Windows?
It's basically telling you that the file the shortcut relates to has either been moved from the location on the disk OR it's been deleted. The easiest solution - is to delete the 'broken' shortcut, then search for the file you want where it should be located, and (if required) create a new shortcut.
How to remove shortcut from a file?
A shortcut is a small file guiding you to the original. Often used to gather programs of folders on the desktop for quick use whit out filling the folder with large data. You can see it's a shortcut by a small white box with a blue arrow on the icon. You can not "remove" the shortcut other than deleting it. By placing the original file it self in the location of the shortcut you might brake a program.
Why do your desk top icons have arrows?
The icons with small arrows on them are shortcuts pointing to the actual file. If you delete a shortcut from your desktop, you are deleting only the shortcut pointing to the file, not the actual file from your hard drive.
Does deleting a shortcut icon affect the actual program or file in Windows XP?
Nope. Deleting a shortcut is just that - deleting the shortcut. The program is not affected.
What is the time deference between Dhaka Bangladesh Dallas Texas?
What is the time deference between Dhaka Bangladesh and Dallas Texas? Save
What is the difference between a copy and a shortcut?
When you copy something, you create a clone file, and those two files are completely independent of each other, that means if something happens to one file (ie if you delete it), then nothing will happen to the clone of the file, and it works vice versa. On the other hand, a shortcut is dependant on the file it is leading to. If something happens to the mother file (lets just call it that), like deletion, then the shortcut will be useless. What a shortcut does is just keeps you from going into a bunch of directories (aka, my computer, or documents, etc.) to access a certain file. Source: 10 years of using computers
How does one make a desktop shortcut on Vista?
There is a simple method on Windows Vista to create a handy desktop shortcut. Assuming the file is already on the PC in question, click on the Start button, go to All Programs, and then find the file. Right click on the file and then select Send To and then the desktop. This will enable a shortcut.
