Create Shortcut and add Icon

This applies to Windows 7, and probably other Windows versions. The info can probably also be applied to other OS with some adjustments.

You can create a shortcut for Chatty, which has some potential advantages (depending on what you need):

• It may allow you to start Chatty even if you otherwise have issues with that.
• You can give Chatty launch options, like -cd or -d to use a different settings directory.
• You can attach Chatty to the taskbar.
• You can give the shortcut the Chatty icon, to replace the Java icon without changing it for all Java programs.

Create shortcut

Create a shortcut to Java to start Chatty (for this example the Chatty.jar is located in D:\Chatty\):

First way

• Right-click in the folder you want to create the shortcut in, choose New - Shortcut from the context menu. Enter javaw -jar "D:\Chatty\Chatty.jar" as location of the item.
• Go to the next page and enter a name for the shortcut and finish creating the shorcut.
• Right-click on the newly created shortcut and choose Properties from the context menu. Make sure that under Shortcut the Start in points to the folder that the Chatty.jar is in (otherwise some stuff might not work).

Second way

• Right-click on the Chatty.jar and drag it to an open area in the folder, then let go to open the context menu, choose the option to create a shortcut.
• Right-click on the newly created shortcut and choose Properties from the context menu. In the Target field, it should have the path to the Chatty.jar. Before that add: javaw -jar , so that in total it reads for example: javaw -jar "D:\Chatty\Chatty.jar"

The javaw part might automatically be changed into the full path to the javaw.exe when you save the shortcut.

Editing shortcut

Add launch options or icon:

• Right-click on the newly created shortcut and choose Properties from the context menu, then go to the Shortcut tab.
• Add any launch options you want to use with Chatty after the path to Chatty. For example: javaw -jar "D:\Chatty\Chatty.jar" -cd
• Click Change Icon.. and then Browse.. to select an item to use for the Shortcut from your harddrive. (Download Chatty icon as .ico file, right-click and Save target as..)

Use shortcut

You can then start Chatty by using this shortcut or you can drag it to the taskbar to attach it to it.