how to create google chrome shortcut on desktop

This article was originally such a solution. This is very frustrating and users have been complaining and posting help on the Internet on this issue going back several years with various solutions that often work only partially, or are more complex than users care to deal with. This desktop shortcut often fails and instead of opening the page the user intended to open it opens a Chrome browser window to the default settings and page. When users create shortcuts to the current page by clicking menu > More Tools > Create Shortcut with or without checking the “Open as Window” option the desktop shortcut is supposed to function as a browser tab without the browser features and open the page in a way that looks more like it was a stand-alone application.

It seems that the problem was not Microsoft’s and the solution offered was not the best option.Īpplication Shortcuts or shortcuts to sites where you can open as a window are convenient for Gmail and Calendar as it helps find these on the taskbar without having to sort through tabs in various Chrome browser windows to find these often used sites. When I originally posted this article I blamed Microsoft for Chrome Shortcuts not working.

How to create google chrome shortcut on desktop