Creating a shortcut on your desktop

As easy as it may be for some people, creating a shortcut is pretty cumbersome to do for other people.  Microsoft Windows XP and above have made it really simple to create a shortcut onto your desktop.  Having to Right Click and then click on Create Shortcut to then have to copy it again and paste it to your desktop seems like a lot of extra unnecessary steps.

All you have to do is Right click on the file and then choose Send to -->  Desktop (create shortcut).  It actually creates the shortcut and puts it onto your desktop at the same time.  The Create Shortcut could be used if you wanted a shortcut not on your desktop, but I think that is where the majority of shortcuts end up going.

This was a quick tip and if you knew it already, that is great too!