Creating a preconfigured BlueZone session shortcut

You can create a desktop shortcut that launches a BlueZone session along with an preconfigured BlueZone profile (configuration file). In order for this feature to work, you must create at least one BlueZone profile along with an associated desktop shortcut. These files must be added to your BlueZone distribution image so that they are available during the BlueZone installation process.
Prerequisites:
  • In setup.ini, under [Program Group], the UseGroup= entry must be set to Yes. Yes is the default value.
  1. Install BlueZone Desktop using the default settings. Refer to Installing BlueZone for more information.
    Verify that you have installed all of the BlueZone emulators that you want to make shortcuts for. Verify that you have installed the BlueZone Session Manager.
  2. For each shortcut that you want to create, start the appropriate BlueZone emulator, configure, save, and name each session. Refer to Configuring sessions for more information.
    The profile names that you create are also the names that are assigned to the shortcut.
  3. Open the BlueZone Session Manager.
    An icon for each session you created displays.
  4. Highlight a session and click the Create Desktop Shortcut icon on the Session Manager toolbar.
    A desktop shortcut is created for each session and placed on your desktop.
  5. Repeat step 4 for each session.
  6. Locate the following files and save them in your BlueZone Desktop distribution image folder:
    • BlueZone profiles for each session

      The profiles are saved to: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\BlueZone\Config

    • Shortcut files for each session

      The shortcut files are saved to: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Desktop

      Note: Windows does not display the file extensions of desktop shortcut files in Windows Explorer; however, if you use the Windows command prompt to display your files, the desktop shortcuts have a file extension of .LNK.
  7. On a test machine, install BlueZone using your BlueZone distribution image. Verify that the desktop shortcuts are created and start the configured BlueZone sessions.