After download app create short shortcut

Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Windows 10 still lets you create desktop shortcuts to applications, files, folders, and even websites. Look for the application you want to use by scrolling through the Apps list at the left side of the menu. Release the mouse button to create a link to the program, also known as a desktop shortcut.

To create a desktop shortcut to a file, first, locate the file somewhere in File Explorer. Hold down the Alt key on your keyboard and then drag and drop the file or folder to your desktop. Release the mouse button to create the link. Holding down Alt is necessary.

In Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, you can quickly create desktop shortcuts to websites. You can use all the above methods to create shortcuts in other folders, too. Want to create a shortcut to a website or application in your Downloads folder?

Go right ahead! Just drag and drop it to your desired location instead of the desktop. You can also choose the size of your desktop icons from here—large, medium, or small. Can you give more concrete examples for how to implement this? I'm pretty new to Android dev and any guidance would be great. All the links to android. The answer is historical for Launcher2. Launcher3 is the current version and the links have been updated to the current websites.

Yes i have experienced same thing, application downloaded from android market, on android 3. In my experience with Android 2. Robert Robert 1, 20 20 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. This works like charm, but adds another icon on startup You could use a preference when first launch after installation.

Check if it's null then it's the first launch then go to addShortcut. Remember to give it a value afterward to escape the if-else. Vaishali Sutariya Vaishali Sutariya 5, 28 28 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. On the other hand, there's always a Google Image search : Google Play Store settings source: ProgrammerGuru ; click image for larger variant For a detailed description, please see the source of that image: How to create and remove shortcut for Android application?

Improve this answer. Egon Egon 1 1 1 bronze badge. I have a Galaxy S7 edge and after some other issues, had to reset my phone. In doing so, I somehow lost the icon for my Kindle app. The app was installed on my phone, but I could only access it through the play store.

I was scared to disable it, for fear of permanently losing it somehow. However, after reading the above answer, I found that it works!! Go to your app manager, disable the app, then enable it again. The icon was then back in my app drawer : Thank you so much to the other person who "accidentally found the answer. No result. And here it is.

Straight causal relationship. Moving that above mentioned custom. Thank you, this worked like a charm. Really dumb how they arent located somewhere that is more obviously accessable…. Thanks a lot! It seems like something like creating a shortcut should be more straightforward, and be able to be completed with a mere right click left click. However, you made this mysterious method simple and easy to follow. I appreciate it! I tried this, but unfortunately when i created a shortcut on the desktop,the i can associated with the app turned into the blank file icon.

Any solutions? Why does Microsoft feel the need to make simple functions from prior versions a secret? The best thing about the Microsoft store is that it makes installing and uninstalling apps easy and clutter-free. Additionally, all the store apps are automatically updated in the background so that you no longer have to deal with the individual update or upgrade prompts. Windows will take care of all that stuff in the background.

One of the benefits of creating the Store apps shortcut is that you can add them to the startup folder. Once added, the app will start with Windows.