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How to prevent the desktop shortcut creation!

Solar PuTTY is a great tool and I love using it. But it creates a desktop shortcut every time I use it which drives me mad! Is there any way to prevent this?

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byrnej

I was having the same issue with GNS3. I fixed it just including the absolute path to the exe

GNS3/Preferences/General/Console applications

C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Solar-PuTTY-v4\Solar-PuTTY.exe --telnet --hostname %h --port %p --name "%d"

(just change USER for yours)

Hope it helps

DrLightman

Hello,

I'm having the same question.

My shortcut in Start menu already points to an absolute file:

C:\SolarPuTTy\Solar-PuTTY.exe

Everytime I launch it, it creates a shortcut to itself in the Desktop.

I delete it, and next time I launch Solar-PuTTY again it creates the shortcut.

Zarpyk

I find what is the problem, the file is not the exe that you downloaded, it generate another file located on "%AppData%\Solar-PuTTY-v4\Solar-PuTTY.exe"