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Creating an Hotmail shortcut on your desktop

Published by jak58, last update on Sunday October 5, 2008 09:43:45 AM by jak58

Creating an Hotmail shortcut on your desktop





Accessing your mailbox on Hotmail is time consuming; you can either add Hotmail.com to your Favorites or access it via instant messaging applications.

The quickest method to access your mailbox and read directly your message is definitely to create a shortcut on your desktop.

Proceed as follow:

Right click on your desktop and select New and the Shortcut options.

In the Create Shortcut window, that appear type in the command below:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe "%ProgramFiles%\Internet Explorer\hmmapi.dll",OpenInboxHandler



Click on the Next button.

Type in the name the shortcut (e.g. Hotmail instant access) and click on Next. Your new shortcut should be on your desktop and ready to use.



Note: if you want modify the icon associated to this shortcut, just right click on the shortcut, select the Change Icon option, select the icon you want to use and click on Ok.
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