Sometimes, while browsing the web you may find an interesting website. You are in a hurry, but you want to get some more details about that website at a later time. What can you do? Create a bookmark, of course [Ctrl+D in almost all browsers].
But what if you want to create a shortcut outside your browser? There are two ways to create such a shortcut.
The easiest way is to select the whole hyperlink, grab it with your mouse, drag and release it on your desktop. You can rename it to something memorable (do not remove the URL extension).
Another way to create an internet shortcut is this:
- open a new text file - use Notepad or similar;
- in that file, on the first row write [InternetShortcut]
- hit Enter and on the second row write URL= followed by the hyperlink you want to save
(if you want to make a shortcut to this blog write URL=https://infoandtipsandtricks.blogspot.com/);
- save the file then rename it to whateveryouwant.URL (it doesn't matter if it's capital or not).
That's it. Now, when you double-click on this file your default browser will open (if it's not opened already) and will open your saved link in a new tab/window.
What's the use of this? I saw it used by some affiliate marketers in an attempt to mask an affiliate link (combined with redirection) - they include such file - like "Double-click-for-a-cool-bonus.URL" in the package you can download after a purchase.
