Hi David, you can send stuff to the desktop in windows 8, it just takes more steps. For programs, if you search from the start screen, open its context menu and choose open file location, you can create a shortcut from there. For details see the additional tasks section of this guide to the start screen: http://goo.gl/GwlKh For items in the control panel it's even more steps. If you search for settings using windows key + w, then there's no context menu to open the file location. So what you have to do is first pin the control panel item to the start screen. To do this, in file explorer, in the tree view, move to the control panel, then move down the tree to the control panel item that you want. Open its context menu and choose pin to start. The item will now be listed when you search for programs from the start screen, and so you can proceed as in the case of programs. David.
original message: Thank you for trying never the less. I did start a windows 8 page last summer but my resource stopped sending daily emails so for now it is at a stand still until I obtain new material. The thing about 7 is many shortcuts may be found by bringing them up in the search box and then doing a send to command to the desktop. If I can add to my 7 or 8 page for that matter some time I certainly will do so. David Ferrin For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
