MS Teams Icon on Desktop
MS Teams Icon on Desktop: a reader asks…
I have a Windows 11 PC and I use Teams for video conferencing a lot. I know I can pin the icon to my Start menu and Taskbar, but how do I add a desktop icon? Normally I right-click an item and create a shortcut, but that option isn’t available for the Teams app. Can you advise?
Sure, this is one of those odd things where Microsoft software developers don’t follow the standard coding for some of their own apps like they do for others, and for all 3rd party apps you install on your Windows computer. There’s a simple trick to get to the icons that are in your Start menu, and then you can create a shortcut for the Teams icon on your desktop. Here’s how:
Click the Search bar at the bottom left of your screen, then type “run” and hit your keyboard’s Enter key. That opens a small box called “Run” with a form field “Open”. Into that form field, type:
shell:appsfolder
And hit your Enter key again. That opens up a File Explorer window to your Applications folder. Scroll down that window till you see the Teams icon. Now you can drag that icon to your desktop and it will create a shortcut on your desktop to the app. Simple, right? Pity this isn’t well-documented anywhere, and it isn’t needed for most apps.
One thing you might notice is that from time to time the Teams icon might not show correctly, instead showing a plain blank white rectangle. The simplest way to fix this (heck, many problems with Windows) is to restart your computer.
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Author: Chris Gardner
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