possible to create shortcut to finder?

since the Finder runs automatically (and it IS in the dock, or can be restarted by force-quitting it if you need to relaunch it), I'm not sure I understand what you hope to accomplish. Can you elaborate?

Joe VanZandt

Finder is found in /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

Trevor

Thanks Trevor. Was able to create an alias (shortcut, windows speak) to finder easily. Just needed to figure out where finder was...

Wyatt

You're welcome. I'm also curious (as is JDV) what you are doing with the alias to Finder on your Desktop. Are you having some problem that requires you to relaunch it often?

Trevor

I share JDV's curiosity: why did you want to do this?

Clicking on the Desktop will bring the Finder to the front, so having a shortcut to Finder on the Desktop doesn't seem useful.

Maybe if you tell us what your higher-level goal is (what user-visible effect you want) we could suggest something.

And by the way, what's wrong with clicking on the Finder icon in the Dock?

I use MenuStrip to launch my apps instead of the dock. In order to launch finder from MenuStrip I had to know where finder was located. I really don't want a shortcut from the desktop, but I found it easier to explain versus MenuStrip. Yet, I was able to easily add finder to MenuStrip without problem. It works great.

Thanks Again,

Wyatt

Incase anyone is interested in future, I had a similar problem wanting to use Quicksilver to launch the Finder (after quitting it by accident for example).
I created a simple applescript saved as an app that tells the finder to start.
I'd put the codes in, but they're embarrisingly simple, and I can't open the script back up to copy them out.
Then I hit comand-space typr "fin" and start the finder up.