Thank you very much - that was exactly what I needed.
The knowledge, expertise and helpfulness of you people never cease to amaze me.

Thanks again.
Mark

Hi Mark,

If you are referring to using an icon on the desktop as a hotlink to a web site, you
can do it like this.

Let's say you want a hotlink to SEARS web site on the desktop, first right click on
the desktop and choose New||Shortcut.  When the shortcut wizard pops up, browse
to any file on your hard drive(doesn't make any difference what file you select, a text file,
an html file, or and executable file) the wizard comes back to the following dialog box
after the file has been selected:

With the location of the file you selected highlighted in the location box in
the wizard, paste the following into the box:

rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://www.sears.com 

Then click next and name the icon in the next dialog box.

You will end up with an icon on the Desktop that is a hotlink to Sears.

Once the icon is on the Desktop you can change the default icon to any icon
you choose by right clicking on the icon and choosing Properties||Shortcut||Change Icon

Hope this is of some help

Don
"Mark" <mark@nospam.com> wrote in message news:eNPqAXJhDHA.3324@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
I've tried in vain to figure out how to attach a link to an icon, so a click on the icon will take me to a designated webpage.

Can someone please tell me how to do that - what HTML codes should be used?

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Mark