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How to make uninstallation work by right clicking app icon from start menu

For some reason INNO SETUP 6 installed applications cannot be easily uninstalled from Start menu. There is nowadays an option UNINSTALL appearing for INNO installed icons under Windows 10/Start Menu when you right click the App icon. So when I right…
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How can I add/not add a shortcut to an uninstaller depending on the Windows version in Inno Setup?

According to Inno Setup Start menu uninstall shortcut is not shown on Windows 10 I should not add a shortcut to an uninstaller to the Start menu, on any version of Windows. But still, can I somehow decide whether to create the shortcut or not…
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Using NSIS the Uninstaller shortcut does not show up in the Start Menu

Using NSIS I have created an installer, which works well. It is a user privileged installer which installs in %localAppData%\Programs; StrCpy $INSTDIR `$LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\MyAppFolder I create an uninstaller which works perfectly from Control…
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Error Dialog pops up during Unistallation

When the uninstaller is executed with an user that has no admin permissions, the Windows UAC pops up and asks for login information of an admin user. If you enter the login information and go on with the unistallation, almost at the end an error…
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Delete (or do not create) Start menu shortcuts in Inno Setup when compiler flag is set

I have an Ant script to compile a Java program (the one I want to distribute), create a few different executables and settings files (to run different configurations), and then launch an Inno Setup script to put it all together into an installer. …
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I want to change my icon's color on start menu In UWP

I want to change My uwp Apppackage's the color of Start menu icon. for example) 1's color is light blue, but 2's background color is black. like that, I want to chnage my uwp app's start menu icon's color to transparent. I used totally transparent…
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How can I disable the Start button (but not the Taskbar) on Windows 7?

On Windows XP, it was possible to disable the Start button with the following code: hTray = FindWindow (TEXT("Shell_TrayWnd"), NULL); if (hTray) { hStartButton = FindWindowEx(hTray, NULL, TEXT("Button"), NULL); if (hStartButton)…
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How to apply an icon for an generated shortcut?

We create an shortcut in the start menu of windows and for that shortcut we want to apply the icon of the target file. The target file is an help file of Help & Manual (Suffix is .chm). We tried the following code: var lPath =…
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getting the "friendly" name for window startmenu items/shortcut files

This is curious, some startmenu items seems to resolve to a "friendly" name that's not contained in the actual .lnk file. For example: "c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\System Tools\dfrgui.lnk" is displayed in…
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PowerShell: manage suggested apps

In my Windows 10 start menu, under Pinned Tiles, I have two suggested apps: Asphalt8Airborne and Microsoft.AgeCastles. I do not know if the term "suggested" fits here, anyway, contrary to other preinstalled apps, when you try to run them, you are…
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Windows 2016 Server - Start Layout GPO missing items

We're in the process of building and configuring GPO and profiles for Windows Server 2016. We're familiar with the XML based start menu file (worked with it in Windows 2012R2). We've got all our shiny icons just the way we like, we then export…
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Windows 10 Startmenu Layout Baseline, tile missing

I have created a baseline for my windows 10 deployments which sets the StartMenu to a default layout. (I had to make it a baseline due to some internal politics so don't ask :-) .) This baseline creates a XML file with the data captured from a…
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How would I pass my program a string from the start menu search in Windows (like ping)?

When my program is launched from the start menu shortcut I would like to send it a string. I see that ping does this because I can type in ping [and a domain] and it will pop the cmd window and do the ping. However I think this must be working…
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How to add VS solution to windows 10 startmenu

Sorry for that not directly programming related question. How can I add my Visual Studio solutions to the Windows 10 start menu as "secondary tile", so I can easily access them? Drag&Drop seems to indicate that it is possible (dragging to the…
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Pin custom tile to Windows 10 start menu

I'd like to pin a custom tile to the start menu and launch a website or desktop file when I click on it. There's an app called Better start menu, but it has to keep running and not the best experience. Can I just place some HTML/XML markup at a…
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