To create a desktop shortcut to a program installed on your Windows PC: Begin by clicking the Windows icon on the bottom left of the screen (or, on default Windows 11, the leftmost icon on the ...

So consider this: What if all those web apps you rely on were integrated into Windows — with their own desktop windows, taskbar icons, and more?

More and more operating systems are now running the Windows desktop apps it once seemed everyone — including Microsoft itself — wanted to leave behind.