{"id":332,"date":"2015-06-30T01:55:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=332"},"modified":"2016-06-21T20:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T09:00:25","slug":"how-to-create-printers-and-devices-shortcut-in-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-create-printers-and-devices-shortcut-in-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Printers and Devices Shortcut in Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to create a shortcut to the Devices and Printers Control Panel item in Windows 8 please follow these instructions. \u00a0They can also be used for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1. Right Click on Desktop and click on New Shortcut<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/New-Shortcut.png\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-333\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/New-Shortcut.png\" alt=\"New-Shortcut\" width=\"440\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 2. Enter the following in the location of the shortcut<\/h2>\n<p><code>%windir%\\explorer.exe shell:::{A8A91A66-3A7D-4424-8D24-04E180695C7A}<\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Shortcut-Devices-Printers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334\" src=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Shortcut-Devices-Printers.png\" alt=\"Shortcut-Devices-Printers\" width=\"631\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Shortcut-Devices-Printers.png 631w, https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Shortcut-Devices-Printers-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Step 3. Type in a Friendly Name<\/h2>\n<p>Click Next and Type in a Friendly name such as Devices and Printers. \u00a0Click Finish.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 4. Change the Icon (optional)<\/h2>\n<p>If you like you can right click on the new shortcut, choose properties, choose &#8220;Change Icon&#8221; and change it to something more representative such as a printer.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to create a shortcut to the Devices and Printers Control Panel item in Windows 8 please follow these instructions. \u00a0They can also be used for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012. Step 1. Right Click on Desktop and click on New Shortcut Step 2. Enter the following in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[36],"article-tag":[621,310,309,312,311],"class_list":["post-332","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-windows-8","article-tag-devices-and-printers-exe-location","article-tag-devices-and-printers-shortcut-command","article-tag-shortcut-devices-and-printers-windows-8","article-tag-shortcut-to-printers-windows-7","article-tag-shortcut-to-printers-windows-8"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":6,"sum_votes":28},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}