Beginner Shortcuts are one of the most used and least understood parts of Windows. We're going to help you figure out the idea behind shortcuts, and show you some pretty neat tricks as well. A shortcut is a pointer to another file on your hard drive. Each page in the textbook is a file in your computer, whether it be a document, an application, a picture, or a game. Now, you could easily use the table of contents or the index to bring up the information you need, but sometimes there's a quicker way.
Some people mark the most interesting or useful pages in the textbook with a sticky-note.
A shortcut acts just like a sticky-note , a quick way for you to get to the exact file or program you need. Let's say that you make a shortcut to your web browser. Every time you double-click on that shortcut, it opens up your web browser. If you then delete the shortcut, you will NOT be deleting your web browser. Deleting your shortcut is like taking the sticky-note off of the page.