The question isn't elaborated enough, but to my understanding of what you've asked, you want to just launch Minecraft 1.8.9 upon clicking the launcher icon.
First thing to understand is that the Minecraft Launcher can launch multiple versions of Minecraft ranging from the first releases of alpha Minecraft all the way to the latest snapshots of 1.16 ( as of the time this was posted ).
With that stated, to resolve your question, you cannot launch Minecraft 1.8.9 by just clicking the Minecraft Launcher icon alone, there are other ways to make this possible as myself and my team have touch lightly on by experiments, but these require running scripts, editing the launcher itself and couple of other things like reboots and backup storages. - This would defeat the purpose of an easy entrance into the specified version of Minecraft for the preparations and resources required would exceed the small benefit of the one click > enter shortcut.
If you want to know how to launch Minecraft 1.8.9 through the launcher, you can follow these guiding screenshot instructions along with these simple steps:
Open the Minecraft Launcher
Click the overhead tab found towards the top middle-left of the launcher screen
Press (+) New to create a new installation (if you don't have 1.8.9 installed already)
Create a new installation by expanding the Versions section and scrolling down the list until you see Minecraft 1.8.9
Click to select it
Name the Installation and change the look of the Installation block (both are optional)
Create the installation by pressing the green create button located at the bottom right corner of the launcher screen
Press the 'Play' Tab located to the left of the 'Installations' Tab
You can select the 1.8.9 version you want to launch by expanding and selecting the 1.8.9 version found at the bottom left area of the launcher
Once selected, press the big green 'Play' button. Minecraft 1.8.9 should download and launch almost immediately after done.
How do you make it so when you click the icon, it just launches minecraft 1.8.9
The question isn't elaborated enough, but to my understanding of what you've asked, you want to just launch Minecraft 1.8.9 upon clicking the launcher icon.
First thing to understand is that the Minecraft Launcher can launch multiple versions of Minecraft ranging from the first releases of alpha Minecraft all the way to the latest snapshots of 1.16 ( as of the time this was posted ).
With that stated, to resolve your question, you cannot launch Minecraft 1.8.9 by just clicking the Minecraft Launcher icon alone, there are other ways to make this possible as myself and my team have touch lightly on by experiments, but these require running scripts, editing the launcher itself and couple of other things like reboots and backup storages. - This would defeat the purpose of an easy entrance into the specified version of Minecraft for the preparations and resources required would exceed the small benefit of the one click > enter shortcut.
If you want to know how to launch Minecraft 1.8.9 through the launcher, you can follow these guiding screenshot instructions along with these simple steps:
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- Silent