[BaseCamp] seemingly continuous loop

saddle sore ironbutter at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 04:30:42 PST 2015


as they say, YMMV.    I was doing what Jim suggested with the swipe,
search, and pin directions which continued resulting in the eternal loop of
reinstalling BC just to launch it.  But, problem is solved (or resolved)
using Peter's thoughts and I'm not looking back!!
Joe Y.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Jim Hatch <jamesdhatch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:51 PM, -=maura=- <moteramaura at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > To create an icon to BaseCamp (or anything) on your desktop: Start> all
> > programs>highlite BaseCamp (under Garmin folder most likely)>right
> > click>send to desktop
> > How does this work in windows 8? I would not know, with classic shell I
> am
> > living in a hazy bucolic past of windows 7.
> >
> >
> Assuming you're not running a Win7 mimicing shell like ClassicShell, you
> can find the exe - swipe from the right to open the Charms bar (its name is
> changing in Win10 btw) and click on the Search. Type Basecamp and it will
> show you a Basecamp icon. Right click that and pin it to the Start (it will
> show up on the "Modern" desktop as a tile, way off to the right until you
> move it where you want it. Or right click and select Open file location.
> You'll be brought to the directory in the File Explorer and you can right
> click it from there to send it to your desktop (the Windows classic
> desktop).
>
> If you get too used to using it in "classic desktop mode" then you forget
> about things like the Charms Search. Sometimes that's an easier way to do
> things than navigating through the file trees or program menus. It's fast.
>
> Jim
>
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