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Create shortcuts for individual Keen games

By Tim

This guide explains how to create individual shortcuts to each Keen game.

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How to create shortcuts for individual Keen games.

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How to create shortcuts for individual Keen games.

Step 1.

Browse to your commander Keen folder in the steam apps common directory. This will depend on where you installed Steam.

Step 2.

Each game is launched by a .bat file.

These are the games as follows.

Keen1.bat - Marooned on Mars
Keen2.bat - The Earth Explodes
Keen3.bat - Keen must die!
Keen4.bat - Secret of the oracle
Keen5.bat - The armaggeddon machine

Right click on the one you wish to create a shortcut for and click "send to -> desktop"

Step 3.

The icons for the shortcuts are located in the "base folders" base1 for Keen 1, base2 for Keen 2 etc...

1. Right click on your newly created shortcut and select "properties"

2. Click on the "shortcut" tab and clikc the button "change icon"

3. Click "browse" on the next window that appears and navigate to the base folder and you should see an Icon. Select the icon and click open.