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I love this forum; such community spirit, and you guys are always eager to help out another! Which leads me on nicely to my question...

Is there any way of making a downloadable 'Desktop Shortcut'? So like an icon, a name and a URL link all integrated into one shortcut that users can download and save in their Desktop?

I've never come across it before so I'm not sure if its possible but I'd still apprecaite some help on the matter.

Thanks in advance! : )

It'll be an option if they want a desktop shortcut to my URL. So when they click it a shortcut will download to their desktop linking to my url, with the right name underneath and the website's logo as the icon.

erm and to download it, do you mean as soon as they browse your site you want it to download, or when they click a button/hyperlink

I got one of these bloomin things when I browsed the 'Tiscali' website, evil, can't you change the link in the .lnk file to a url? I havn't tried it though... :)

Oh yes, of course. 96 is for Half-Life decals :)

ignore that

32x32 pixels, even

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You get your logo, save it as a 96x96 bitmap and rename it to a .ico file, then point your shortcut at it using the properties.

yes but if i wanted a specific icon (the websites logo) is there a way to bunch that with the lnk file?

Thanks very much for your help so far.

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