How to Create Custom Shortcut Comment Pop-Up Descriptions in Windows 10

A shortcut in Windows is a kind of link to a program, file, or folder. So hovering your mouse over it, logically, shows you its target location on your computer. But if that’s too dull, you can create a custom comment pop-up description to appear instead of the default location information that Windows gives you.

Here we will show you how to customize comments for a shortcut in Windows. This will allow you to add a line telling the user what will happen if they click the shortcut, or to insert a description of the program, file, or folder.

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How to Add a Custom Comment to a Shortcut Pop-Up

There is a very simple way to add a custom comment to your shortcuts in Windows. The comment you leave could take the form of a message to the user, a description of the shortcut, or even a whimsical sentence. Here’s how to do that.

RefreshWindows File Explorerby pressingF5. Now when you hover over the shortcut, the custom comment that you set will be displayed instead of the shortcut’s location information.

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Note that you cannot apply this trick to files and folders. These steps will only work with shortcuts, but fret not; it’s easy tocreate shortcuts from anywhere in Windows.

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you could give your computer a unique and nuanced personal touch with such small changes as modifying the shortcut pop-up descriptions in Windows to have custom shortcut comments. These are cosmetic changes you can make to Windows to infuse your personality into your computer.

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