how to make a deskop Hi , im making visual basic Simulation Of Operating System

Hi , everyone im making visual basic Simulation Of Operating System replacement of exploreror. Im just trying something new im wrighting this for both .net and vb 6.0 and it will be open source when done if some one wants to help with this projuct just tell me.Ok the help i need is how do i open a icon and it takes me to a texteditor i have this done but what i want is how to save that file to the desktop replacement shell and i can pick what icons and stuff like a will operating system.Im not doing this for school or anything im just trying new thinks out please help me with this thanks.,
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