[Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut

[Paul Wittle]

Hi,

Yes it is Windows 10 and definitely nothing to do with the installer. The closest I came to tracking it down was that the wintoast module creates a parameter storing a path which is almost right (it actually writes to the user profile but other than that it is the same path) and it also creates a parameter for the file extension *.lnk.

I don’t think it is anything to do with Windows itself as I’m not aware of any other application which does this; it appears to be creating the link as part of the load procedures.

Icons do appear in the recently used section automatically but this is creating a physical file with the extension *.lnk and as far as I can tell; wintoast is the only bit of code which is aimed at Windows users and has the concept of a *.lnk file (shortcut).

Paul

From: Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>
Sent: 23 May 2019 12:34
To: Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk>
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut

Hi Paul,

Are you using Windows 10? I have seen that happen on a Windows 10 VM. The good part is that it's not related to QGIS installer, it's something Windows creates (like a recently used program). The bad part is that I was not able to avoid it... :-(

Cheers,

Alex

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:13 PM Paul Wittle <paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk<mailto:paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk>> wrote:
Hi,

My install of QGIS 3 (LTR) keeps adding a shortcut to the start menu every time I load the application. I can literally delete the shortcut then open QGIS and watch it create the icon again.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this; it is frankly just annoying when applications change the start menu on load rather than keeping that short of thing to the installer?

I already have the shortcuts I need so this is just adding back a duplicate entry I can’t remove.

Thanks,
Paul

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