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Create a shortcut to this file on the user's Desktop.
Be prudent in your use of this option. It is generally not considered good etiquette to litter the user's desktop with shortcuts. At most, limit yourself to making a shortcut for only your main program, or use a screen to ask the users whether they want any desktop shortcuts created.
Create a shortcut to this file in the user's Startup folder.
Create a shortcut to this file in the user's Quick Launch menu.
Note: Quick Launch shortcuts are part of Internet Explorer and are stored within each user's profile. Therefore quick launch shortcuts will only be created in the current user's profile regardless of the user profile chosen during the install.
Create a shortcut to this file in the root of the user's Start menu.
Create a shortcut to this file in the Start menu > Programs folder.
Create a shortcut to this file in Start menu > Programs > %AppShortcutFolderName%. The session variable %AppShortcutFolderName% is expanded at run time to represent the folder that the user wants to add the shortcuts to.
Create a shortcut to this file in a custom location. You can specify the folder on the user's system where you want to create the shortcut.
The description that will accompany the shortcut(s). By default, if the file does not contain any version resources, the filename will be used as the description. If the file does contain version resources, its description will be extracted from that information. You may want to change this to something more meaningful and descriptive.
An optional string to display in the "comment" section of the shortcut. This parameter is only supported on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. On operating systems that do not support the information, it will be ignored.
The working directory for each of the shortcuts.
The command line arguments that you want passed to the file when the user uses the shortcut to launch the file.
The run mode for the file. Choose from:
The file will be run with its window at normal size.
The file will be run with its window minimized.
The file will be run with its window maximized.
The shortcut key combination you want to assign to the shortcut. To assign a shortcut, place your cursor in this field and press the keyboard keys you want to use as the shortcut key. If this field contains the string "None", no shortcut key will be assigned.
The icon you want to use for the shortcut. Choose from:
Use the icon in the file's resources, or if the file does not have any icon resources, use the default Windows icon for its file type.
Use a custom icon file in the shortcut.
The path to the icon file that will be used to represent this shortcut on the user's system. The file must be a valid Windows icon (.ico) file. You can click the Browse button to open the Insert File Reference where you can select an existing standard icon (.ico) file from your project, or add one. After the file has been selected, this field will contain the location to reference the icon file after it has been installed on the user's system.
The index of the icon you want to use for this shortcut. If there is only one icon in the file, or if you want to use the first icon found, enter 0.