Shortcut for Notepad

It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.

On 9/6/19 9:55 PM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


Hi RHB,

I always amazes me what W10 will and won't allow me to
put on the task bar and from where.

This almost always (note the weasel words) works for me:

1) open up that annoying tiles screen by clicking
on the start orb.

2) scroll and scroll until you find the program you want
on the task bar.

3) right click on the icon, then select "pin to taskbar".

It is alright if you cuss a bit. As Mark Twain says:

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He
can swear and still be a gentleman, if he does it in a
nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
--Mark Twain - Private and Public Morals speech, 1906

HTH,
-T

RHB wrote:

It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something
I use all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for
the location but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do
I get a shortcut made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help
as usual.

Please remember that we are not there looking over your shoulder to see
what you are doing.

"Some window". And what does the window have inside of it? What
content does it display?

"There are too many to type there." Too many what?

"Keep on my taskbar". Do you want to pin Wordpad to your taskbar? If
so, are you trying to pin a batch file (.bat) that calls Wordpad, a
command line that calls wordpad and with arguments, or just the program?
Or do you want to have a toolbar in the taskbar with shortcut(s)?

Googling only works if you have some idea of what you are looking for
and happen to choose a decent set of search criteria. Just like Google,
I don't know what you are really trying to ask for help.

On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 00:55:59 -0400, RHB wrote:

It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This takes only seconds:

* Open the start menu.
* Scroll down the LEFT SIDE of the start menu to the folder "Windows Accessories".
* Inside "Windows Accessories", you will find the WordPad shortcut.
* Right-click on the WordPad shortcut and choose "More Pin to taskbar".


Subject: Shortcut for Notepad

The same works for Notepad.


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It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.

Instead of a shortcut, try setting up a keyboard "Shortcut Key".

* Find Notepad (or other program) in the Start menu.
* Right-click it, and pick "More Open File Location" - tht gets you to
the shortcut file in the menu which links to the executable.
* Right-click that and pick Properties
* Half-way down, there is a field for "Shortcut Key". Type (e.g) N into
that (it'll be updated to Ctrl+Alt+N) and save, and from then on
Ctrl+Alt+N pops up Notepad on demand! (Massively useful!)

I use X for Excel, similarly, etc. Oddly, whenever Office gets an
update, the Excel shortcut is cleared and has to be reconfigured, while
(e.g.) A for Access isn't. That'll be a long-standing bug that no-one
at MS has ever noticed.

--

Phil, London

On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

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Judge your ancestors by how well they met their standards not yours.
They did not know your standards, so could not try to meet them.

On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 00:55:59 -0400, RHB wrote:

It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad,
something I use all day when working. No more. Some window opens
asking for the location but there too many to type there. WTF?
How the hell do I get a shortcut made to keep on my taskbar? No,
Googling as no help as usual.

You seem a bit confused as to whether you want Wordpad or Notepad
shortcuts. They are different programs.

"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I
use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

Damn, you beat me to it :-)

Same thing I do. It works with OOB Win10 with tiles, or if you're using a
3rd party program such as Start10 or StartIsBack (why are they called "3rd
party" and not "2nd party"?).
--

SC Tom

On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:36:54 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something I
use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

Damn, you beat me to it :-)

Same thing I do. It works with OOB Win10 with tiles, or if you're using a
3rd party program such as Start10 or StartIsBack (why are they called "3rd
party" and not "2nd party"?).


It's lawyerese and connected to agreements and contracts.

Party of the first part ("First Party") is Microsoft, as they own the
OS, the PC and you. Party of the second part ("second party") is the
user, customer, slave or Matrix Component using the Microsoft OS or
anyone delegated by those entities to use it such as an employee. The
PotSP can be a corporate entity.

The Party of the third part ("third party") is anyone else in the
mix, for example a vendor of ancillary softwares, a lawyer, a judge,
the guys swinging down ropes from the silent, black helicopters when
you misuse the Microsoft OS or just about everyone else.

J.

"John" wrote in message
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On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:36:54 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something
I
use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the
location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a
shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

Damn, you beat me to it :-)

Same thing I do. It works with OOB Win10 with tiles, or if you're using a
3rd party program such as Start10 or StartIsBack (why are they called "3rd
party" and not "2nd party"?).


It's lawyerese and connected to agreements and contracts.

Party of the first part ("First Party") is Microsoft, as they own the
OS, the PC and you. Party of the second part ("second party") is the
user, customer, slave or Matrix Component using the Microsoft OS or
anyone delegated by those entities to use it such as an employee. The
PotSP can be a corporate entity.

The Party of the third part ("third party") is anyone else in the
mix, for example a vendor of ancillary softwares, a lawyer, a judge,
the guys swinging down ropes from the silent, black helicopters when
you misuse the Microsoft OS or just about everyone else.

So, if I wrote a program that would run on Windows, then it would be a 2nd
3rd party app?

Just kidding; I just never thought of myself as the "2nd party", but you are
absolutely correct in the lawyerese explanation :-)

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 08:09:58 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"John" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:36:54 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something
I
use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the
location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a
shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

Damn, you beat me to it :-)

Same thing I do. It works with OOB Win10 with tiles, or if you're using a
3rd party program such as Start10 or StartIsBack (why are they called "3rd
party" and not "2nd party"?).


It's lawyerese and connected to agreements and contracts.

Party of the first part ("First Party") is Microsoft, as they own the
OS, the PC and you. Party of the second part ("second party") is the
user, customer, slave or Matrix Component using the Microsoft OS or
anyone delegated by those entities to use it such as an employee. The
PotSP can be a corporate entity.

The Party of the third part ("third party") is anyone else in the
mix, for example a vendor of ancillary softwares, a lawyer, a judge,
the guys swinging down ropes from the silent, black helicopters when
you misuse the Microsoft OS or just about everyone else.

So, if I wrote a program that would run on Windows, then it would be a 2nd
3rd party app?

Just kidding; I just never thought of myself as the "2nd party", but you are
absolutely correct in the lawyerese explanation :-)

Well, bowl me over with a nebulous abstraction, I've rarely been
called *absolutely* correct! Thank you, sir, you've made my morning,
which is quite some feat considering it's nearly dark o'clock in the
afternoon.

To make a Notepad.exe shortcut (admittedly, I'm using Win7 but WinTen
shouldn't be all that different), I right-clicked on the desktop,
picked "NEW/SHORTCUT", typed "notepad.exe" (without the quote marks)
into the "location of thingy" field, called it "notepad and pressed
"finish".

To get it onto the Taskbar, I just clicked on it to grab it, dragged
it onto the bar and let go.

The slowest part of this was the typing.

There's no need for complications. Windows has them all in its pocket
so we don't need to do them.
J.

On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 14:47:19 +0100, John wrote:

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 08:09:58 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"John" wrote in message
. ..
On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:36:54 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something
I
use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the
location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a
shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

Damn, you beat me to it :-)

Same thing I do. It works with OOB Win10 with tiles, or if you're using a
3rd party program such as Start10 or StartIsBack (why are they called "3rd
party" and not "2nd party"?).


It's lawyerese and connected to agreements and contracts.

Party of the first part ("First Party") is Microsoft, as they own the
OS, the PC and you. Party of the second part ("second party") is the
user, customer, slave or Matrix Component using the Microsoft OS or
anyone delegated by those entities to use it such as an employee. The
PotSP can be a corporate entity.

The Party of the third part ("third party") is anyone else in the
mix, for example a vendor of ancillary softwares, a lawyer, a judge,
the guys swinging down ropes from the silent, black helicopters when
you misuse the Microsoft OS or just about everyone else.

So, if I wrote a program that would run on Windows, then it would be a 2nd
3rd party app?

Just kidding; I just never thought of myself as the "2nd party", but you are
absolutely correct in the lawyerese explanation :-)

Well, bowl me over with a nebulous abstraction, I've rarely been
called *absolutely* correct! Thank you, sir, you've made my morning,
which is quite some feat considering it's nearly dark o'clock in the
afternoon.

To make a Notepad.exe shortcut (admittedly, I'm using Win7 but WinTen
shouldn't be all that different), I right-clicked on the desktop,
picked "NEW/SHORTCUT", typed "notepad.exe" (without the quote marks)
into the "location of thingy" field, called it "notepad and pressed
"finish".

To get it onto the Taskbar, I just clicked on it to grab it, dragged
it onto the bar and let go.

The slowest part of this was the typing.

There's no need for complications. Windows has them all in its pocket
so we don't need to do them.
J.

And just to prove that even us super-genius types can fark-up, I
tried to delete the Notepad booter icon in the taskbar because I
already had one and managed to delete my entire QuickLaunch folder at
the same time. A lesser being would not have been capable of such
monumental moronity.

Fortunately, I found a copy, restored it and fiddled about until I
got it to look like it is supposed to.

I'm so good I can even fix *my* genius mistakes!

J.








Note: it's Sunday, I'm hot, I have a sore head and I'm hungry, tired
and depressed, I need a boost to my morale somehow, even if I'm the
only one doing it.
J.

On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 12:33:25 +0100, mechanic
wrote:

On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 00:55:59 -0400, RHB wrote:

It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad,

Right-click on desktop. Choose New, then Shortcut. Type "wordpad.exe"
(no quotes) in the "location field. "Next". Type "Wordpad" in the
"name" field. Click on "Finish".

Left-clicky and hold the new icon. Drag it to the taskbar. Drop it.
You now have a Wordpad.exe bootery icon on the desktop and on the
taskbar.

Repeat for all sorts of loverly stuff. Windows can find these things
for you if you give it half a clue.

something I use all day when working. No more. Some window opens
asking for the location but there too many to type there. WTF?

Type "wordpad.exe" without the quote marks. Windows will find the
thingy for you. Windows is bloody bloated with tricks like that. It's
why Windows now comes on a fifty TeraByte drive instead of three
floppies.

I rather liked it when it came on floppies. Life was ever so very
much easier.

How the hell do I get a shortcut made to keep on my taskbar? No,
Googling as no help as usual.

You could try https://www.startpage.com with the search key:
"how do I create a notepad icon in windows ten taskbar" again lose the
quote marks.

When I did that, I got many, many good pages of easy-to-follow tips
and advice.

A search engine is only as good as the key.


You seem a bit confused as to whether you want Wordpad or Notepad
shortcuts. They are different programs.

He could create a separate icon for each one. And one for Word, one
for Excel, one for ....

Then he could create a new folder called "MicroStuff" on his desktop
and drop all of those lovely starty things into it. That way he would
know where they all are even should he cover his desktop with icons as
some people are prone to do.

The last step is to drag the folder to the taskbar so it pins. With
luck, it pins an alias and the "original" is still on the desktop so
he has *two* routes to it. More if he goes by way of Explorer or some
Explorer substitute file manager.

Windows has *loads* of ways of doing many things. It's up to each of
us to find the one *we* consider to be the easiest.

J.



Note: Yes, he could create a folder for "AV-programs", one for "Video
stuff", one for "Writing files to places", one for "Miscellaneous
toolkittery bits" and one for "letters from Suzie" with starty icons
for each on his Quick Launchy type taskbarry bit.

Windows has *room*.

Of course, he could also do most of that in Mac OS X or *Nixxy but I
won't mention those as this is a Win-newsgroup.
J.

On 9/8/2019 10:12 AM, John wrote:
On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 14:47:19 +0100, John wrote:

On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 08:09:58 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"John" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:36:54 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



"Keith Nuttle" wrote in message
...
On 9/7/2019 12:55 AM, RHB wrote:
It used to be it took seconds of make a shortcut to wordpad, something
I
use
all day when working. No more. Some window opens asking for the
location
but there too many to type there. WTF? How the hell do I get a
shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar? No, Googling as no help as usual.


This is difficult.

right Click the MS Icon and type "Notepad", When you see Notepad in the
results right click and click pin to task bar.

This works with most programs in the Windows 10 OS

Damn, you beat me to it :-)

Same thing I do. It works with OOB Win10 with tiles, or if you're using a
3rd party program such as Start10 or StartIsBack (why are they called "3rd
party" and not "2nd party"?).


It's lawyerese and connected to agreements and contracts.

Party of the first part ("First Party") is Microsoft, as they own the
OS, the PC and you. Party of the second part ("second party") is the
user, customer, slave or Matrix Component using the Microsoft OS or
anyone delegated by those entities to use it such as an employee. The
PotSP can be a corporate entity.

The Party of the third part ("third party") is anyone else in the
mix, for example a vendor of ancillary softwares, a lawyer, a judge,
the guys swinging down ropes from the silent, black helicopters when
you misuse the Microsoft OS or just about everyone else.

So, if I wrote a program that would run on Windows, then it would be a 2nd
3rd party app?

Just kidding; I just never thought of myself as the "2nd party", but you are
absolutely correct in the lawyerese explanation :-)

Well, bowl me over with a nebulous abstraction, I've rarely been
called *absolutely* correct! Thank you, sir, you've made my morning,
which is quite some feat considering it's nearly dark o'clock in the
afternoon.

To make a Notepad.exe shortcut (admittedly, I'm using Win7 but WinTen
shouldn't be all that different), I right-clicked on the desktop,
picked "NEW/SHORTCUT", typed "notepad.exe" (without the quote marks)
into the "location of thingy" field, called it "notepad and pressed
"finish".

To get it onto the Taskbar, I just clicked on it to grab it, dragged
it onto the bar and let go.

The slowest part of this was the typing.

There's no need for complications. Windows has them all in its pocket
so we don't need to do them.
J.

And just to prove that even us super-genius types can fark-up, I
tried to delete the Notepad booter icon in the taskbar because I
already had one and managed to delete my entire QuickLaunch folder at
the same time. A lesser being would not have been capable of such
monumental moronity.

Fortunately, I found a copy, restored it and fiddled about until I
got it to look like it is supposed to.

I'm so good I can even fix *my* genius mistakes!

J.








Note: it's Sunday, I'm hot, I have a sore head and I'm hungry, tired
and depressed, I need a boost to my morale somehow, even if I'm the
only one doing it.
J.


AND that work and all you needed to do was right clilk on the icon on
the taskbar and click "Unpin from Taskbar"

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Judge your ancestors by how well they met their standards not yours.
They did not know your standards, so could not try to meet them.

On 07/09/2019 05:55, RHB wrote:
WTF?

It looks like you are a person of low intelligence trying to use an
operating system by nym-shifting constantly that is meant for
intelligent people.


How the hell do I get a shortcut
made to keep on my taskbar?
It took me less than 2 seconds to get it. all I did was type Notepad in
the search box and it returned "Best Match". i then right-clicked on it
and what I got was amazing as shown in the picture attached
herewith!!!!!!!!!! you need to be using Windows 10 when asking
questions on a windows 10 newsgroup but because of your low
intelligence, you want understand this.


[ alt-No for less intelligent people ] https://i.imgur.com/VuuvdqA.png


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