Sure - Eitherway. Right click the desktop. Choose make shortcut.. name it whatever,, browse for the file. If it's more than two files I make a 'NewFolder' for Money on the desktop and make shortcuts inside it to them.

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

That's an interesting option. This particular problem though occurs as FF starts up (before it even opens tabs) so I think you'd still have a dup task problem. I use toolbar folders to open frequently used URLs without cluttering up desktop with deskcuts. I forgot to mention to also check any entries on the toolbar which start up FF tasks. These could also be culpable. I just disabled and re-enable all toolbar entries which use FF. So far so good. Funny this problem hasn't more documentation out there - it's really aggravating!

I was just reading this thread and saw something in Pam's report which may cause a little confusion. Unless I am wrong her suggestion had to do with an entry on the Start Menu not the Programs folder on the C:/ drive. So it would be START>locate the target application entry, right-click, and so on. If a user wanted to use the Program Folder on the C:/ drive as a portal one would open the folder> open the target application sub-folder, and then right-click on the application's .exe file. Mostly a terminology issue as the suggestion was a good one. DA