3 shorcuts for two rhinos, one an oddball or what?

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,
New build PC win7 64bit pro.
I installed Rhino V4 , and got a shortcut called Rhinoceros 4.0 which I placed where I normally have it on screen.
Then I rebooted and did the ini, toolbar, display imports.

rebooted and installed V5. rebooted and positioned its icon, given name by installation process Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit) underneath V4

I have just noticed that I have a third shortcut. called Rhinoceros 5

properties of it say:-
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Rhinoceros 5\System\Rhino4.exe”

taking a look at the V4 shorcut “C:\Program Files (x86)\Rhinoceros 4.0\System\Rhino4.exe”

and the V5 shortcut of Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit)
“C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5 (64-bit)\System\Rhino.exe”

What is that V5 shortcut just called Rhinoceros 5 which targets rhino 4 for ?

what is a Rhino4.exe file doing in a rhino 5 system folder ?

Steve

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You might have noticed that this does not target Rhino V4 if you tried it… It is the shortcut to Rhino V5 32 bit.

http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/why2shortcuts

–Mitch

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It was done so V4 plugins would recognize “Rhino 5 32 bit” as Rhino.
(If I remember correctly)

4

Hi, Cheers, I didnt want to try it and have a nasty occur.

Steve