# How to run the settings script

### Easiest way to launch scripts

Just drag & drop the **settings script** `.jsx` file into Photoshop's icon in either **the Dock on Mac** or **the Taskbar on Windows**. It's the same way you can open image files, but PS knows that it's a script file and runs it as such. When the batch process ends a dialog will pop up to inform you about that.

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On Windows you have to hold `Shift` when you drop it to the taskbar icon.
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Photoshop may ask you if you're sure you want to run the script. When you click "Ok" or "Yes" or whatever the dialog button say, it'll run the script.
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### Alternative methods to launch scripts

1. Launch the script from the Photoshop menu `File > Scripts > Browse...`
2. You can also make Photoshop `Actions` where you record launching a script using the drag and drop method or `File > Scripts > Browse...`
3. This last method is probably not something you'd want to do with this script, but Photoshop has a `scripts` folder wherever Photoshop is installed in, like (on Mac): `/Applications/Adobe Photoshop 2021/Presets/Scripts`. If you install a script this way it will appear in the `File > Scripts > ...` menu and if you want, you can give it a shortcut in `Photoshop at Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts...`.