No longer able to add desktop shortcuts to websites

The Blank tab you have makes me wonder if you don't have more "System Issues", or malware ...
What do you see in the Blank tab?
Just guessing here ...

Sorry - it appears I just repeated alot of the info you put in your post. But the 'web document' option is confusing. Maybe an aspect of win7 wasn't installed.
Hopefully we'll get more input, but I do appreciate the help.

Kari-
I know about entering the entire url when prompted for the location. After entering the url location and clicking the 'next' button, I enter the name I want to display on the screen under the icon. I've entered NBC News - Breaking News & Top Stories - Latest World, US & Local News as the location each time, in this example.

rrpdmd said:

Also, using 'Print Screen' didn't really work, unless I was supposed to just save the file.

When you use the print screen Keyboard button, you have to do a paste into a program.
I usually paste into Windows Paint, but many other programs can be used such as MS Word.

It would be interesting to see if the OP gets a different type of shortcut creating it that way.

(not sure if this was posted or not. If it is a repeat, just ignore it.)

Success! I opened the shortcut's properties window again, and changed the 'open with' option to Chrome. Then I used the file association link Jacee gave me, and restored the default file association to the url extension.

Tested it.... dbl-clicked and there it was! Chrome opened, and NBC News was on the screen. I love when things work.
THANKS TO BOTH OF YOU!