

Once you click Create, the shortcut will be added and you can open it just like you would any app on your desktop. You'll be able to choose if you want to pin the app or file to your taskbar and/or your desktop. Then go to the setting menu in Chrome (the three horizontal lines at the top right of your browser), More Tools, and Create Application Shortcuts. If you want to create a shortcut to a specific document, open that file. To do this, open Google Chrome and go to. Instead of opening Google Docs directly in your browser, you can click on a shortcut on your taskbar or desktop and open the app that way. Please share your comments and suggestion through form below.If you use Google Docs (or Spreadsheets or Slides), here's a quick tip for getting to your files faster from your desktop. The above example was for C drive, for any other drive for example F drive, replace C in the registry key mentioned in step 2 above with F. Its Done! Now just open My Computer and you will see the icon properly as below: Double Click on the entry and type the below value in it:Īnd press ok, as you can see in image below: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorere\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIconĬlick to enlarge the image below, here you will see that the registry entry at this location is either set to 0 or some in-valid value.ģ. Go to Start > Run, type "regedit" and press enter, this will open registry editor. The fix is really simple, follow the below steps:ġ. We will share the simple registry hack to fix this issue. In the snapshot below you can see that icon for C drive is missing (C:). So today I am going to share this fix with you. Kavi himself solved this problem and sent sent us the fix before we started working on the problem. This kind of problem was once reported earlier by one of our readers Kavi. Recently one of our readers reported that his drive icon is not visible for a particular drive.
