Configure Windows DeskTop shortcut to launch chrome window for Home Assistant

Here’s the process I used to have shortcuts on my windows desktop for home assistant and NodeRed.

  1. Right click on the desktop and create short cut
  2. Browse to the chrome executable under program files\google and select it.
  3. Give it a name and save it to your desktop as a new short cut.
  4. Right click it and visit the properties page
  5. Access the Target field and move the cursor to the end of the field, enter a space and add the URL to your home assistant web site.
  6. If you wish a fresh standalone chrome window to be started proceed the URL with --new-window
  7. Click the Apply button and exit the dialog.

I then visited the Home Assistant web site to right click on a image to use an icon and saved to the local computer as PNG file and then did the same for NodeRed.

I then used a online website to convert them to ICO files.

Once you have the ICO files you can right click on the short cut and click the “Change Icon” button.

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or
open it in Chrome and

click the …
click More tools
click Create shortcut…

then

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or…in chrome left click and hold the ssl lock and drag to your desktop. Done!