Windows 11 25H2 quietly changes how desktop shortcuts work


                            Windows 11 25h2 Quietly Changes How Desktop Shortcuts Work

Windows 11 25H2 quietly changes how desktop shortcuts work

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Windows 11 version 25H2

Home windows 11 model 25H2, which is presently out there for testing within the Dev Channel, is coming later this 12 months. It’s anticipated to convey a number of noteworthy adjustments and upgrades, equivalent to a redesigned Begin menu, which is able to deal with loads of consumer suggestions and criticism. Apparently, Microsoft additionally seems to be making some adjustments to how desktop shortcuts work.

Whereas Home windows 11 model 25H2 and its redesigned Begin menu nonetheless assist you to create shortcuts by dragging apps from the menu to the desktop, the shortcuts’ properties dialog is now totally different. In Home windows 11 model 24H2, you’ll be able to right-click a shortcut and verify the trail to the file within the “Goal” field. In model 25H2, the field now not exhibits the complete path to the file.

Updated properties dialog in Windows 11 25h2

Moreover making issues much less handy, this variation removes the power so as to add particular instructions and arguments to executables. Right here on Neowin, we frequently report on experimental options and adjustments that you could solely allow by modifying the shortcut’s goal. Whereas it’s nonetheless attainable in Home windows 11 model 25H2, customers at the moment are required to take a special method.

There aren’t any phrases from Microsoft concerning this variation. It is usually fairly attainable that it’s a bug within the new Begin menu. Reverting to the outdated Begin menu restores the earlier habits. In the event you would not have the brand new Begin menu in your system with a Dev or Beta construct, take a look at this text.

If you wish to create a shortcut with the right properties dialog, do the next:

  1. Open the Begin menu and right-click the app you need to have on the desktop.
  2. Choose “Open file location.”
  3. Home windows 11 will open File Explorer with the app you want. Proper-click it and choose “Present extra choices.”
  4. Choose Ship to > Desktop (create shortcut).

Performed. Now you have got the right shortcut with a correctly working goal field within the properties dialog.

Through Deskmodder

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I am Rakib Raihan RooSho, Jack of all IT Trades. You got it right. Good for nothing. I try a lot of things and fail more than that. That's how I learn. Whenever I succeed, I note that in my cookbook. Eventually, that became my blog. 

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