it might be easier to simply use your firefox's bookmark toolbar and put you icons to your most used sites right there on that toolbar then once firefox is open just click on the icon. To put any website icon on the bookmark toolbar in firefox, put the cursor on the icon at the beginning of the url in the address bar then drag it from there to the bookmark toolbar and let go. Firefox's Bookmarks Toolbar

Caroline, I use Internet Explorer as my browser, and my operating system is Windows XP Pro. The default location for the icon for a new shortcut is this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\url.dll That's where you end up with the icon that looks just like the Internet Explorer icon. You already know how to get to the point where you can change the icon, so click on "Browse" to change locations and then go to: C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll There are a lot of icons to choose from in that dll.

Right click on the Desktop. Select View from the appearing drop down menu. What is checked? DA

You might try copying the URL and pasting it in your browser location bar. If it doesn't connect when you hit the enter key try deleting the part after the last / and press the enter key again. If it connects then you can try to find what your're lookn ing for there. If you do find it you can copy and paste it in the properties section of your shortcut. The shortcut would then work.