How to put shortcuts to websites on the desktop?

Does anyone know how to do this? With Internet Explorer you simply dragged the site icon in the title bar to the desktop, but I can't seem to do this with Edge.

Right-click on the Desktop and select New > Shortcut. At the next screen type in the URL you want to create a bookmark/shortcut for, click Next then give your bookmark a name, then click Finish.

Thanks for your quick reply, SmoothLefty21. This is the way I am doing it now - I was just wondering if there is a way to do it directly from Edge like there was in Internet Explorer.

Click the 3 dotted line at the top right of Edge and select "Pin to Start", from Start you can drag the shortcut to the desktop.

Ah, sorry about that. Only other way I'm aware of at the moment is to copy/paste them out of the folder that stores Edge's favorites. Not ideal.

C:UsersyourusernameAppDataLocalPackagesMicrosoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbweACMicrosoftEdgeUserDefaultFavorite s

Guess you could add that folder to Quick Access in File Explorer to make life a little easier.

Click the 3 dotted line at the top right of Edge and select "Pin to Start", from Start you can drag the shortcut to the desktop.

Interesting, I just tried that and while the favorite does work in the Start menu it does not work after dragging it to the desktop. It opens Edge's homepage, not the URL of the bookmark/shortcut. You're getting it to work on your end?

Interesting, I just tried that and while the favorite does work in the Start menu it does not work after dragging it to the desktop. It opens Edge's homepage, not the URL of the bookmark/shortcut. You're getting it to work on your end?

Yeah, that's odd... Guess I hadn't tried it in this build until now. Something to report to feedback.

Interesting, I just tried that and while the favorite does work in the Start menu it does not work after dragging it to the desktop. It opens Edge's homepage, not the URL of the bookmark/shortcut. You're getting it to work on your end?

Same result I get.

Just used this workaround: Three dots>Open in Internet Explorer and then drag the title bar icon directly to the desktop from IE. Not very elegant though...