Microsoft Edge Shortcut on Desktop?

its simple

1) first click on start go to ms edge hold down the left mouse button and drag to the desktop this works on 10240 have no idea what you are using you left that a secret

Doesn't work for me

its simple

1) first click on start go to ms edge hold down the left mouse button and drag to the desktop this works on 10240 have no idea what you are using you left that a secret

Nope, don't work

I'm running 240 and IT DOES NOT WORK.

If you click the Start you can get a list of the installed programs but right clicking gets a very different menu than we had in W8 and there is NO OPTION to see the Properties nor is there an option to send a shortcut to the desktop.

This is a TREMENDOUS DECREASE IN USABILITY and I have no idea why they did this.

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Bringing up the Start menu, left clicking on Microsoft Edge and holding the button down while dragging the icon to the desktop did create a desktop shortcut for me on 240.  I agree that you can't drag the Task bar's Edge icon, and so can't create the shortcut that way, and that right clicking the Start menu Edge icon doesn't give you a menu item to create a desktop shortcut.

So, yes, most of us can create a desktop shortcut for Edge on Windows 10, but not the same way as we might have created a desktop shortcut in previous Windows versions.

Are we missing a detail somewhere.

There seems to be some confusion as to what is meant by " desktop ".

In the old " desktop " ala Windows 7 / 8 where the x86 programs go if I left click on the Start button it sends me to the " Metro " desktop where apps and their tiles reside.

If I right click on the Start button I get a menu but not the one that lists your programs.

Have to go to the Metro desktop to get that.

However, I discovered this morning that a poster is correct. You < can > put an icon on the desktop ( Original ) from there.

When I drug it to the right it just puts it on the Metro desktop.

But I have two monitors and the Metro desktop only appears on one and the other is the regular desktop ( original ) and I was able to drag the Edge icon to the left onto my second Monitor and THEN I put the main monitor into the regular desktop and drug
it from the left monitor to the right one and NOW after jumping through hoops I was able to get an Icon for Edge on the desktop ( original ).

THIS IS RIDICULOUS THAT WE HAVE TO JUMP THROUGH SO MANY HOOPS and people not familiar and who don't know about this place to get help will NEVER figure it out.

The Start button on the desktop ( original ) needs to have the old style programs list PUT BACK GAD DAWG IT.

What possible reason did they have for changing this and making it so hard to put a shortcut on the desktop.

Also, in the Metro desktop when you bring up the list of programs you cannot right click and get a menu that has Properties on it.

Properties of programs / files seems to have been permanently removed.

****?

Why?

I am severely tempted to roll back to 8.1.

I have never rolled back and abandoned a new version before but the changes they made are making me reconsider.

Linux might not even be such a bad idea after all.

When you go to start and then all apps on Windows 10 you cannot see the desktop so how do you drag it to something that is not visible?

I think there's some confusion here.  On 8, 8.1, and 10, strictly speaking, there's only one desktop, and that's where programs have their windows.  (Lets avoid confusion by not talking about multi-monitor systems right now.) On Windows 8.1 and 10, apps may also have their windows on that desktop.  On Windows 8 and 8.1 there is a Start Screen that takes up the whole display.  On Windows 10, there is a Start Menu that, by default, only occupies part of the display, leaving you plenty of room to drag something to the desktop.  That is true even if you've clicked on "All apps". However, under Settings -> Personalization -> Start there is a option for "Use Start full screen".  Only if you've changed that setting from Off to On will the Start menu occupy the full screen, hiding the desktop.  As far as I know, on Windows 10 there is nothing equivalent to a Metro desktop unless you have chosen that option.  If you have, then you sort of have to accept the consequences, though I agree that Microsoft could have made this whole business of creating desktop shortcuts easier and clearer. 

Thank You for your response. I finally found out how to add Microsoft Edge to my desktop. By desktop I mean the screen you come to when your computer boots up.

You can find the Microsoft Edge .exe file at C:\Windows\explorer.ex " Right click on it and click "create Shortcut and you will get a message saying "windows can't create a shortcut here. Do you want the shortcut to be placed on your desktop instead?" Click yes and you have a shortcut on your desktop. I hope this helps someone.

Ray Morris

I also found a way in Windows 10.

Click on start and the two columns come up.

On the right column, the app column, under "Life at a glance" is the Microsoft Edge app.

Left click on the app and drag it to the desktop. The shortcut (Link) app will appear.