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Chrome is not displaying the web shortcut pages.

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randall -  

Hello,

When I create a new shortcut on the Windows 10 desktop with Chrome or if I drag the address from the address bar to create a new shortcut on the desktop, the webpage does not display when clicking on the shortcut icon, but instead, a window opens with the address of the site that was shortened.

Where could this be coming from?

Thank you for the response.

Windows / Chrome 104.0.0.0

4 answers

  1.  Pierr10 Moderator

    Can you try to create the shortcut "manually" and test its functionality?

    Let me explain:

    • Right-click on the Desktop and choose New => Shortcut
    • Then paste the URL of the webpage into Location of the item.
    • Finish by clicking Next and naming your shortcut.

    What is well conceived is clearly expressed,
    And the words to say it come easily.
    (Boileau)

    1.  Pierr10 Moderator

      Hello,

      I don't see any difficulties: by dragging the address to the desktop I immediately create a functional shortcut.

      1) Have you tried using the Create Shortcut menu?

      2) Right-click on the shortcut and choose Open with
      Select the browser and check the box to always use this program.

      What is well conceived is clearly stated,
      And the words to say it come easily.
      (Boileau)

      1. randall Author

        Thank you for the reply, but it doesn't work; however, Chrome is my default browser. Everything works well on my other computer, so there must be a setting in Chrome that is causing this malfunction, but which one?

        1. brucine

          Hello,

          The procedure indicated by Pierr10 creates a lnk shortcut that points to a complicated target, where we can at least check that the path to the executable chrome.exe is valid.

          An alternative is to create a url shortcut: copy the address of the link you want to shortcut, right-click on the desktop, new, shortcut, paste.

          In both cases, the procedure may fail because we copy the name of the link, and not its address, hence the mentioned issues: before any manipulation, right-click in the address bar, always check to display the full urls.

      2. randall Author

        Hello,

        Yes, it was the Pier10 solution that I had been using until now which no longer worked.

        By chance, I set Edge as the default browser; it opened the created shortcuts correctly, and then I switched back to Chrome as the default browser and everything is back to normal. Computing is full of mysteries.

        Have a good evening.