How do you navigate to a specific website on Windows? The question may be formulated in a very general way, although we have asked it to try to convey what we will suggest below. Conventionally speaking, in order to visit a website we would need to open our default internet browser and place the respective URL address in the space we all know.
However Will there be an alternative to go to a website from the Windows desktop? That is the idea that we have proposed on this occasion, something that we will clear up with the use of a few tools that can be easily handled thanks to different native aids that this operating system offers us.
Accessing a website from the Windows 7 desktop
First of all we will try to mention a method that can be executed in Windows 7 and not in Windows 8 (later perhaps if updates allow it). This is because in this operating system there are still a few options in the Start Menu, a situation that is not found in the most recent version proposed by Microsoft. The procedure is quite simple to carry out, something that we may have even seen on certain occasions without realizing it, and we must proceed as follows to achieve our objective:
- We start our Windows 7 operating system.
- We select the Start Menu button.
- in the space of Search We write any URL belonging to a website.
- Now we press the key Log in.
With this simple procedure we will jump to an Internet browser window, which will be the one we have as the default operating system. As we can admire, this is a simple trick in which only We have required to use the search space within this start menu button, element that is always visible to everyone and yet, we have not realized that it has an additional function to use.
Adding a new Toolbar
The method that we suggested above is one of the simplest to perform, although now we will mention another that is also very easy to follow in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 and their subsequent updates:
- We are located on the desktop of the operating system (whether Windows 7 or Windows 8).
- We click with the right mouse button on the taskbar.
- From the context menu we choose the option «Toolbar«.
- From your options we now choose the one that says «Address«.
With this procedure that we have suggested, it will automatically appear a new item in this Windows Taskbar, space where we will have to place the URL that belongs to any website. By pressing the key Log in We will automatically jump to the requested website through our default Internet browser.
Visit a website with the Bing tool
The 2 previous procedures that we have suggested in this article could be considered as natives in terms of the use of their tools. We are going to add an additional one to them, which will instead use a tool that we will have to download and install, differentiating itself in this aspect from the ones we wrote about before.
The tool is called Bing Desktop, which is compatible from Windows XP onwards. Once we have downloaded and installed this tool, it will come to place a small window that will be synchronized within the wallpaper on the Windows desktop, in which a space is present that is waiting for us to write the URL address of the website we want to reach.
Although this is the most important function of this tool proposed by Microsoft (which is also free), within its configuration there are certain options to customize the tool, which would allow us change the interface color so that it adapts to our work environment.
In a very easy and simple way we have tried to explain the different alternatives that exist to use within Windows, to visit a website from the desktop of this operating system.