{"id":2149,"date":"2014-02-12T01:52:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2019-07-07T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T21:17:08","slug":"visual-installer-how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-an-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/visual-installer-how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-an-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Installer: How to add a shortcut to an application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/visual-installer.htm\">Visual Installer<\/a> to install an application, it is very likely that you want to add a shortcut to Windows&#8217; <strong>Program<\/strong> menu, and maybe also to Window&#8217;s desktop, that starts the application when the user clicks on the shortcut.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/tips\/tips-pages\/add-shortcut-to-program\/img\/menu-list-shortcut-icon.png\" alt=\"List - Shortcut (icon)\"><\/p>\n<p>We have published two tips on our tips &amp; tricks pages for Visual Installer that describes how to create a shortcut to a program that is installed with Visual Installer. The first tip explains how to add a shortcut to Window&#8217;s <strong>Program<\/strong> menu, and the second tip explains how to add a shortcut to the desktop in Windows. Click on the links below to read the tips:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/tips\/tips-pages\/add-shortcut-to-program\/add-shortcut-to-program.htm\">Tip 1: How to add a shortcut to a program file<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/tips\/tips-pages\/create-desktop-shortcut\/create-desktop-shortcut.htm\">Tip 2: How to create a desktop shortcut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Visual Installer to install an application, it is very likely that you want to add a shortcut to Windows&#8217; Program menu, and maybe also to Window&#8217;s desktop, that starts the application when the user clicks on the shortcut. We have published two tips on our tips &amp; tricks pages for Visual Installer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/visual-installer-how-to-add-a-shortcut-to-an-application\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visual Installer: How to add a shortcut to an application&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6118,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/6118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}