Q: I have many icons on my desktop. Some have a little white box in the lower left hand corner and in this box is a black curved arrow pointing to the upper right hand corner. What are these little ...

If you visit certain Web pages, such as Facebook and Gmail, on a daily basis, you can create shortcuts to them on your Mac OS X desktop. Web shortcuts enable you to access your favorite Web pages with ...

If you run your own business, you need to save time whenever you can. You can create Internet shortcuts on your desktop to easily find resources on the World Wide Web ...

You need to learn how to create shortcuts in Windows 10. Without them, you will waste time searching for your favorite apps, programs, games and settings in your PC’s menus. Creating shortcuts in ...

I used my Windows desktop as the place where I opened almost everything. My browser, writing folder, downloads, and screenshots all started there. If I needed something, I searched for its icon and ...

I confess to being a shortcut freak. After all, why search through folders when you can open the file you want with just one mouse click? However, I am finding that the Quick Launch toolbar, as good ...

William Beaver asked for “a simple, safe” way to remove the arrows from the shortcuts on his desktop. Shortcuts point to files–usually but not always programs–that are stored elsewhere on your drive.

Tom Shea administers a PC with several users. Some of the shortcuts on his desktop also show up on other people’s desktops. He wants to control when that happens. Desktop sharing and privacy is ...

Q: I recently migrated from my old Windows 8.1 PC to my new Windows 10 PC. I moved my data files using a product called PC Mover Pro and that seems to have worked pretty well. I had many shortcuts ...