John, I am sure that someone more knowledgeable than myself will give you a direct answer, but personally I would create a new short cut on the desk top by finding the target in Windows Explorer, opening its context menu, choosing Send to followed by Desk top (create Short cut). Douglas On 10 Nov 2006 at 18:43, john snowling wrote: > hi all. > > I'm using supernova speech. > > when I'm on the desktop I want to add a new shortcut. how do I remove the > focus from the recycle bin so I can use the applications key to create a > new shortcut. > > from john snowling. > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq