How to place a shortcut with a color/greyscale icon on the IE Toolbar that will link to anywhere designated:
Start > Run > Type: gpedit.msc
User Configurations > Windows Settings > Internet Maintenance > Browser User Interface > Double-Click: Browser Toolbar Customizations > Add
A window prompt will appear for the following options:
Toolbar Caption (Required) = the name you want to appear for your icon.
Toolbar Action, As Script File or Executable (Required) = the destination you wish the icon to find when clicked.
Toolbar Color Icon (Required) = the icon that will appear on the toolbar when you “mouse-over” the icon.
Toolbar Grayscale Icon (Required) = the icon that will appear on the toolbar.
In order to set the icon on the toolbar of IE, you must have IE activated on a web page; i.e., if you have the home page set to blank, you will first have to access a page bfore you can customize the toolbar.
Right-Click: Toolbar > Customize
Add the icon from left panel to the right. From the right panel you can drag up or down and even set separators for the toolbar so it appears as desired.
To ensure the toolbar icon will open in a new window and not interfere with the current window, apply the following reg-tweak:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"AllowWindowReuse"=dword:00000000