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Creating a desktop icon for the GE

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I tried copying and pasting the GalaxyEditor file to the desktop so that I could just double click it to quickly load it up, however when I double click it it says "SC2 Editor not installed". So does anyone know how I can correct this. I'm on windows 7.

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Edit: I think this is an editor issue that will be fixed (since this is only beta), but all sc2 maps on my desktop lack proper icons. They just show up as default windows programs. Also when I double click them, nothing happens. If this is somthing people know how to fix that would be great, if its a blizzard thing then ill just be patient.
 
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You don't create a shortcut TO your desktop... You go to the program files for StarCraft II, and make a shortcut for the editor there. Then, you move the shortcut to your desktop. THEN it should run.
 
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You don't create a shortcut TO your desktop... You go to the program files for StarCraft II, and make a shortcut for the editor there. Then, you move the shortcut to your desktop. THEN it should run.

Actually I just had to right click my desktop, go to "create shortcut", then using the "browse" function to find the SC2 GE, and it works perfectly.



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...Oh, you're using 7. >_>

You can do that in XP too.


There are 4 ways of creating a shortcut to the desktop:
1. Right-click on desktop and create a shortcut from there, then link it to the exe.
2. Find the exe, right-click on it and choose "Create Shortcut" and then drag the new shortcut to your dekstop.
3. Find the exe, right-click and choose "Send to" -> "Desktop (create shortcut)"
4. Find the exe, drag and drop it to the desktop while holding the ALT key.
 
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You can do it on Linux as well, but it creates a launcher and to make it link to an EXE you need to have Wine installed and then input the command as
Code:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/USER/.wine" wine "C:\PATHOFFILE\applicationname.exe"
 
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