Hi

I need a solution which allows users to create a desktop shortcut to a website, preferably with website logo as shortcut icon.

There are ways users can create shortcut such as drag drop favicon or right click > create new shortcut etc. This works but also creates the shortcut with default IE icon on windows. I am trying to avoid this method for this icon and some other reasons.

I thought of creating a website-title.URL file, and tell users to download and save file to their desktop, again this works but doesn't solve the icon problem as the website logo (.ico) has to be at local disk and at a pre-specified location [IconFile=path].

I was wondering if it is possible to create a some sort of installer or windows application which users can download from the website. Once its executed by user, it creates this .URL file on user desktop which have IconFile path pre-specified, and copy the website-logo.ico at path specified in .URL file etc. So my questions are -

• Is it possible to create such a solution? What programming languages can be used to achieve this?

• Can this installer/app be made to work on non-windows machines as well?

• From developments point of view how big project it is? if I have to hire a programmer to do this.

Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks