What is a shortcut

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Tuesday October 19, 2010

For those of you who don't know

what a shortcut is

computer terms

, it's quite similar to what you might think. That is to say, it's a quick way of getting somewhere. In computers, you can

quickly access files and folders

creating shortcuts

. We'll show you what that means in this tutorial.

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- A shortcut is a link to something on your computer.

- A shortcut can lead to a drive, a folder, a document, a program and so on.

- When you delete a shortcut, you are not deleting the actual item, you are only deleting your link to the actual object.

- For example, if you delete your shortcut to a folder, you haven't deleted the folder, only the shortcut.

- Shortcuts are handy for easily accessing things all over your computer.

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