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tucdemonic
12th June 2006, 04:09 PM
Anyone know how to create a shortcut / alias to the system preferences Startup Item?
XPLORx4
12th June 2006, 05:33 PM
OSX or XP?
tucdemonic
15th June 2006, 03:51 AM
OSX or XP?

Sorry should have mentioned that, I am looking for the way to do it on the OSX side. On the PC side I have already done it with no problems. just right click on the item in the control panel then click on create shortcut.
neosublime
16th June 2006, 09:10 AM
Easiest way is to open up Terminal.app and type...

"ln -s /System/Library/PreferencePanes/StartupDisk.prefPane/ ~/Desktop/StartupDisk"

Rename it, move it, or even change the icon if you want.
XPLORx4
17th June 2006, 09:24 AM
tucdemonic- Did that answer your question?

If you want to create a shortcut of anything on OSX, just open a new window, navigate to the directory where the item lives, and right-click it and choose "Make Alias" or hold down "option" and "command (apple key)" while dragging the mouse.

The items you see in System Preferences are located in /System/Library/PreferencePanes/

This is the non-command-line version of what the above poster recommended.