Accidentally deleted the Git Shell shortcut

Question

So where is it? I checked the usual suspects, namely Program Files and Program Files (x86), but I didn't see any mention of GitHub there.

Halfslip

Answer 1

I know someone offered an answer but deleted it for whatever reason before I could accept it, so here goes.

You need to create a shortcut to a command, which is actually rather convoluted.

1. Right-click on the desktop and do New > Shortcut
2. Browse to any file, but make sure it's not a .exe file!!
3. Click next through the rest of the wizard and accept the defaults
4. Now right-click the shortcut, go to Properties > Shortcut tab
5. Set the Target to: "C:\Documents and Settings\\AppData\Local\GitHub\GitHub.appref-ms" --open-shell
6. In step 5 above, the quotes are required.

Halfslip

If you use a .exe file for step 2, when you get to step 4 you'll notice that there's no Shortcut tab. That confused the crap out of me, but apparently it's a Windows thing. Whatever. – Halfslip

on windows 7 i ended up using a target of "%LOCALAPPDATA%\GitHub\GitHub.appref-ms --open-shell" – Otterburn

Answer 2

A better solution is to run

%LOCALAPPDATA%\GitHub\GitHub.appref-ms --reinstall-shortcuts

which will recreate the shortcut on the desktop.

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