If you don't want it cluttering up your desktop, drag the shortcut onto your Quick Launch task bar. If there's a particular folder or file you access frequently, change the focus on Windows Explorer to open there each time. In the target field, locate the line ending with explorer.exe. On my PC at home, Windows Explorer opens to my Desktop. Be sure in the target field to use the exact spacing and punctuation as shown.
Every file has an extension, the three or more characters after the file name.
For example, this page is called os.htm, and .htm is the file extension . Thousands, as you'll see at the sites that list file extensions . Regardless of what you name the extension, the information in the file still has a certain type of content . A text file is very different from an audio file. If you try to open a spreadsheet with an image editor, it won't work.