{"id":13817,"date":"2017-10-24T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=13817"},"modified":"2017-10-25T18:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:52:53","slug":"add-your-favorite-sites-to-your-desktop-or-taskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/add-your-favorite-sites-to-your-desktop-or-taskbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Your Favorite Sites to Your Desktop or Taskbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Add Your Favorite Sites to Your Desktop or Taskbar<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>This tip was written for the Chrome browser on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (any version). We&#8217;ve also added instructions for Microsoft Edge users. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>If you&#8217;re using Firefox, IE, Opera or other browsers,\u00a0 you can drag the URL from the Address bar on any browser to your desktop.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you use Chrome and you&#8217;d like to put a shortcut on your desktop or taskbar to Facebook, Gmail, Outlook.com, Twitter, Cloudeight InfoAve \ud83d\ude42 or any of your favorite sites, it&#8217;s super easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>In Chrome, visit the site you want to create a shortcut to. Click on the settings icon (3 vertical dots) at the top right corner of Chrome.\u00a0 Click &#8220;More tools&#8221; then click &#8220;Add to desktop&#8221;. That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/on-your-desktop0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"567\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For this tip, I&#8217;ve added three of the sites I visit most often: Outlook.com, Gmail and Cloudeight InfoAve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/on-your-desktop1.png\" width=\"110\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And there they are. Now if I want any of those on my taskbar, all I have to do is right-click on one and choose &#8220;Add to taskbar&#8221;. See?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/on-your-desktop3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"566\" height=\"49\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added <a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloudeight InfoAve Tips &amp; Tricks<\/a> web site and the Gmail account I used most to my taskbar. It&#8217;s quick and easy. Try it!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using Edge on Windows 10 Version 1709 or newer (Fall Creators Update) you can do this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/edge-pin-to-taskbar.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve - Edge - Pin to Taskbar\" width=\"478\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to a web page you want to pin to your Start menu or taskbar. Then click on the settings icon (3 horizontal dots) and click on &#8220;Pin this page to the taskbar&#8221; or\u00a0 &#8220;Pin this page to Start&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Your Favorite Sites to Your Desktop or Taskbar This tip was written for the Chrome browser on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (any version). We&#8217;ve also added instructions for Microsoft Edge users. If you&#8217;re using Firefox, IE, Opera or other browsers,\u00a0 you can drag the URL from the Address bar on any browser to your desktop.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/add-your-favorite-sites-to-your-desktop-or-taskbar\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,1751,1433,10],"tags":[344,83,1901,1902,1723,321,812,1900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13822,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions\/13822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}