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Windows 8 How to Make A Shortcut for Paint Program in Windows 8

How to Make A Shortcut for Paint Program in Windows 8

By Michael | Last Updated

This text mainly shows you how to make a shortcut for Paint program (see the following picture) on Windows 8 computer.

paint shortcut made

Video guide on how to make Paint shortcut on Windows 8 desktop:

Steps to make a shortcut for Paint program in Windows 8:

Step 1: Turn on Command Prompt, input notepad in it and press Enter to open Notepad.

input Notepad in command prompt

Step 2: In the Notepad, type mspaint (i.e. the run command of Paint program).

type mspaint in notepad

Step 3: Open the File menu and choose Save As to move on.

choose Save as

Step 4: Rename the file as Paint, add ".bat" (no quotes) to the end of the name, and click Save to save the document.

rename file

When these steps are finished, the shortcut of Paint program above-illustrated will turn up on the desktop.

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