? no host shortcuts to W2K clients ?

I remember in VMWare Player 7 when running a W2K guest, I used to be able to define a shortcut on the host that would go straight to a particular program on the guest.  In order to define said shortcut, I had to enter unity mode.

Now in VMWare Player 12, W2K can no longer enter unity mode (by design).  So there is no way for me to define a shortcut.  Is there any workaround to allow me to define the shortcut?

Would it be so difficult have the player accept a command line argument for this?