Can someone help me with an ERD Commander 2005 (a form of windows pe) problem.

Does anyone know how to add an icon\program to the desktop or in the start menu (like firefox is) or even in the tools list. I know I can add files to the cd before I create the ISO, which I've done, but I would like to have Ghost appear as an entry somewhere rather than have to navigate to it through explorer.

In the system32 folder of your ERD Commander build you will want to open a file called DT.CFG. This file is used to for desktop shortcuts.

Example

shortcut
name NotePad
position 170, 10
icon %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe
program %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe

I don't use ghost but if you have a folder 'Ghost' at the root of the CD and want to start a program called 'Ghost32.exe'...

shortcut
name Ghost32
position 250, 110
icon %SystemDrive%\Ghost\Ghost32.exe
program %SystemDrive%\Ghost\Ghost32.exe

* For every new desktop icon add (+80 to go down, +100 to go right)
* %SystemDrive% is the root of the CD.
* %SystemRoot% starts in the I386 folder (or the MININT folder if you installed ERD Commander to HD or USB media).


Also, file associations can be added or changed somewhat by modifying the FE.CFG which is also located in the system32 directory. Some of the associations like .txt can only be changed by modifying ERD's registry hives which is a bit more time consuming to do.

That worked a treat. Thank you very much