topic Re: You know it's a Monday when....... in AutoCAD Forum

topic Re: You know it's a Monday when....... in AutoCAD Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/you-know-it-s-a-monday-when/m-p/5476126#M342936 Jim, here's the Target Path I had to create for the icon to launch plain AutoCAD; "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2015\acad.exe"  /p <<VANILLA>> /product ACADM /language "en-US" I see now that the /product switch is calling Acad Mech. but the /p (profile) switch is setting the profile to Vanilla which is generic Acad. I don't know where your AutoCAD 2015 - English - AutoCAD Electrical icon came from - I recall something about a generic AutoCAD 2015 - English icon was never installed and I had to create one from scratch. Granted, if you do not need a modify-able Target Path, you could simply create from from the Start menu.  Due to we modify the Target path, I had to dig down to the acad.exe file and create a desktop shortcut from there.  OT - Something tells me this might jog Dean's mind - we went around about this sometime ago and never settled on what's different between our systems and why a generic Acad icon is or isn't created.  We both had different results lol Wait a min, I'm providing Win7 stuff there - this probably doesn't affect Win8 maybe, at least all the details concerning how to manually create a AutoCAD desktop shortcut. Do you recall where your icon came from?  The one that apparently starts plain Acad but the tooltip states it's Acad Elec... Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:25:39 GMT ampster40 2015-01-20T19:25:39Z