Shortcut creator

Windows comes with quite a breathtaking amount of features, and it can get pretty difficult to reach the ones of interest in time of need, especially if you don’t rely on them on a daily basis. However, you can use third-party tools like Shortcut creator in order to make some particular Windows features a bit easier to reach.

On the one hand, the application doesn’t take you through a setup process, so you can start using it from the moment download is complete. More than that, this makes it possible to use it on other computers directly from a USB flash drive. Registry entries are not modified by its functions, so you can rest assured that the health status remains intact.

When it shows up, a clean window lets you choose from a variety of Windows features for which to create shortcuts. A press of a button is enough to send the shortcut to desktop, without a confirmation showing up, so chances are you get more than one icon in case you insist with button pressing.

On the list of available features you find the Run tool, command prompt, admin tools, process view, search, as well as a handful of computer power options, such as shutdown, reboot, restart, suspend, hibernate, lock screen, or log out.

Unfortunately, these are the only options which you can send to desktop, and there’s no possibility to go through all available Windows features to add more. Removing icons isn’t possible from the application interface, so this needs to be manually done through a delete operation.

All things considered, we can state that Shortcut creator comes with good intentions, but usage on the long run is highly questionable. It’s merely one of those tools you use right after a fresh setup of Windows, and chances are you don’t need to access its set of features again for quite a while.