Chrome Shortcut for Staff Desktops

Chrome Shortcut for Staff Desktops

Many of you have been wanting to get the Chrome shortcut out to your staff so that they are able to have it on their desktop for Google Email and Calendering. This is easy to do in just a few steps!

Login as yourself (you want to make sure you have access to your campus Staff Share folder)
Go to My Computer
Go to Local Disk (C:)
Open Program Files folder
Open Google folder
Open Chrome folder
Open Application folder
You will see the Chrome.exe icon
Right click on the Chrome.exe icon and click Create Shortcut (You can rename it to Chrome)
You can now place this Chrome shortcut icon in your Staff Share folder
Opening Chrome will take you directly to the SSO login

Most of you should have a Staff Icons folder inside your Staff Share folder from when we organized your icons during your most recent deployment...this is the perfect place to put your Chrome shortcut icon. Your staff can access that folder and drag the Chrome shortcut icon to their individual desktops.

For directions on Pinning Chrome to the Taskbar (for Windows 7 Users ONLY), click here.

Windows 7 Tip for Changing Video Output

Windows 7 Tip for Changing Video Output

Just wanted to make sure those of you knew who have Windows 7 that there is a shortcut for changing the video output...for example when you need to:

duplicate your desktop (sharing what is on your screen with projector)
extend your destop (allows you to drag another application to your projector)

The shortcut is Windows + p

I've been meaning to share this tip with you guys for a while. I'm working feverishly on my TO DO list today!