Create a desktop shortcut

When to use this procedure

Follow the steps below to add a shortcut to AIMsi on your AIMsi desktop. You can do this for your live and test environments, but make sure you give the shortcut a meaningful name so they are not confused later.

Steps to complete

  1. In Windows Explorer, navigate to the location where you installed AIMsi (in Install the server copy of AIMsi) and right-click the aimsi.exe file.
  2. Point to Send to then click Desktop (create shortcut).

  1. On your desktop, right-click your new shortcut and click Rename.
  2. Enter a new, meaningful name for the shortcut, such as AIMsi - Test (this will help distinguish it from other AIMsi shortcuts you might have on your desktop).
  1. Right-click on your computer desktop, point to New, and click Shortcut.

  1. On the Create Shortcut window, click Browse.
  2. Navigate to the location where you installed AIMsi in Install the server copy of AIMsi (the default location is C:\AIMsi).
  3. Select aimsi.exe and click OK.

  1. Click Next.
  2. Enter a meaningful name for the shortcut, such as AIMsi - Test, and click Finish. The AIMsi shortcut is added to your desktop.

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