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Josh_Carpenter
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Jun 15, 2020

URL Shortcuts not working in Edge

Good evening   When we used IE11 we use to have shortcuts on all workstations to a specific webpage, this was created by dragging the url from the addressbar to the desktop to create a .website fil...
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mchalapetr
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Jan 14, 2021

joshhuggins 

We experience the same problem and your workaround is probably the best solution yet...

 

EDIT:

I just discovered that this fix doesn't work after restart. Sadly it must be reset every time after restart. Maybe some script could do that after power up.

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Kelly_Y
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Jan 19, 2021

mchalapetr Josh_Carpenter joshhuggins Hi Everyone!  It looks like you are having an issue creating desktop shortcuts for Microsoft Edge.  

 

You should be able to create a shortcut on the desktop by clicking on the icon next to the URL in the address bar (usually a lock icon) and dragging it onto the desktop.  I was able to create a new shortcut on my desktop to this discussion thread. 

 
 

Another option is to right click on your desktop -> New -> Shortcut and fill out the information in the pop up window.  

 

If you are still having an issue, would you be able to share your OS version and MS Edge version?  Thanks! 

 

-Kelly

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