How to Add Third-party program shortcuts to "My computer" window.

When ever we install a third party program on our PC's we try to create a shortcut on the Desktop or any other locations like Downloads,Documents folder etc., in order to ease our work or for quick accessibility.Apart from creating shortcuts at different locations and folders,have you ever tried to create shortcut of third-party programs on "My computer" window(because one cannot add a shortcut to "My computer" window).Even though if you want to create a shortcut in the normal way,one cannot create a shortcut on "My computer"(By dragging) but don't worry in this tutorial i am gonna show you how to add shortcuts to "My computers" in windows(7,8).It's very easy to add them,so lets see how to add them.

How to add shortcuts to "My computer" window.

Steps:

1.Open Run(Win+R) and enter the below command and hit enter.

%appdata%\microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts

Browsing to Network shortcuts folder by entering the command in the Run box.

or browse to

C:\Users\CHINNU\AppData\Roaming\microsoft\Windows\Network Shortcuts

2.Now a window will pop up named "Network shortcuts".Right click in the folder and then click on New>shortcut.

Create a normal shortcut file in "Network shortcuts" Folder.

3.After clicking on the shortcut option,a window will pop asking you to select the program which you want to create as a shortcut on "My computer" window.Select the third-party program by clicking on browse option and then click on Next button.Now it will prompt you to enter a name for the shortcut,enter the name and click on "Finish".

4.Now click on "My computer" and you will find your shortcut in it as shown below.

That's it friends i hope you enjoyed this tricks,if you have any queries regarding any topic feel free to ask us through comments.

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