Windows 10: How to Pin a website shortcut to Windows 10 Start Menu using Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Opera

In this post, we will show you how to pin a shortcut of your favorite website to the Start Menu in Windows 10, using Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer browsers. We have already seen how to Pin a File or Folder to Start Menu, now let us see how to do this.

Pin website shortcut to Start Menu using Edge browser

1. Launch Microsoft Edge browser
2. Press Alt+F
3. Click on More Tools
4. Select Pin to Start
5. Open Start and you will see the pinned website favicon.

Edge makes it very easy to pin the shortcut.

Pin a website shortcut to Windows 10 Start Menu using Chrome

1. Launch Google Chrome browser
2. Click open the 3-dotted Settings link
3. Select More tools
4. Click Create shortcut
5. In the pop-up box that appears, select Create
6. A desktop shortcut will be created

Once this is created, cut and paste the shortcut in the following hidden folder:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

Now open Start > All apps, and locate the shortcut you placed.

Right-click on it and select Pin to Start.

Pin a website shortcut to Start Menu using Firefox or Opera




The following method will work for all web browsers including Firefox and Opera.

Open the website in your favorite browser, and drag and drop its favicon to the desktop.

Then place it in the following hidden folder:

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

To quickly access this folder open Run and type shellrograms and hit Enter.

Now open Start > All apps, and locate the shortcut you placed.

Right-click on it and select Pin to Start.

Pin a website shortcut to Start using IE




Open the desktop version on Internet Explorer and press Alt+T to open Tools. Select Add site to Apps.

Now open your Start Screen and go to the All Apps view by clicking on the “down” arrow at the bottom left side of the start screen. You will see your website app created.

Right-click the website icon and from the bottom menu, select Pin to Start. Else drag-and-drop it on to the Start Menu.

You will now see the website tile pinned to your Windows 10 Start Menu.

That’s it!


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How to create shortcuts for start menu?


thanks for the info but I am not trying to shortcut files to open in Opera, I am trying to shortcut websites to open in Opera.

websites can easily be pinned to start menu via a supplied option in the Edge browser, how do I pin websites to the start menu via Opera or any other browser?, just not seeing it.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

TC

 

How to create shortcuts for start menu?


I am at my wits end with this issue:

I started to populate my start menu with shortcuts (tiles) for things like google finance, flagler live news, etc..all websites by hitting "pin to start" in the new edge browser.

I have now made Opera my default browser, so now I want to have these same shortcuts (tiles) in my start menu but to open with my Opera browser.

I open Opera, go to the site in question and make a shortcut of it to the desktop, I then go to drag it to the start pin and which time it says "pin to start" but it will never pin a opera shortcut to the start menu.

I read somewhere that one can only pin .exe files to the start menu but sites "pinned to start" through the Edge browser are not .exe files, so how come the start menu will except "pin to start" from Edge shortcuts but not from any other browser?

Any help would be appreciated, this is a potential deal breaker for me given that the Edge browser is so unfinshed at the moment.

TC

 

Creating shortcuts for Edge and Opera


I'm guessing there's no way to start Edge or Opera in private mode direct from a shortcut? With Chrome and Firefox you just add an extra command in the shortcut (like --incognito for Chrome), and then when you click the shortcut it opens the browser in private mode.