Can I get a simple explanation as to how I can create shortcuts on my desktop for windows 11? I just want to make a shortcut for 7zip and the only way which appears to work is if an app is listed in the miles long list of files and folders I can choose from. I tried to just enter in the filename, or what might be the filename, and neither of the things I chose worked. I looked in the task manager while I had 7zip running and typed in the filename 7zFM.exe, and the computer said nothing was found.

So what do I do? I don't remember prior windows operating systems being this outrageously horrendous, I remember shit being so simple as just right clicking on a thing and setting a desktop shortcut or dragging a thing to the desktop but nope, it's all "taskbar". I don't think I'm missing something, I think it must just be downright gay. It should not be this complicated and irritating, and also obfuscated. Nothing is clear and simple about this crap.