How to Make a Program Shortcut to Place on Your Desktop
Left click on Start
Left click on"All Programs"
You may have to open another menu, i.e. Microsoft Office to access programs within it.
Choose the specific program you want to create a shortcut for, i.e. Microsoft Word.
Right click on your mouse
Choose "Send to" and then choose "Desktop (create shortrcut)"
A new icon will now appear on your desktop with the name of the program.
On the desktop, to remove an icon, you can left click, hold and drag the icon to the recycle bin anytime you want. This deletes ONLY the shortcut, NOT the program. You then have to go through Start, All Programs etc. to access the program you want.
Alternatively you can right click on the program icon, choose "Delete," and say "Yes" when prompted to continue your deletion.
