[Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut

Thu May 23 11:35:38 PDT 2019

On Thu, 23 May 2019 11:43:18 +0000, Paul Wittle
<paul.wittle at dorsetcouncil.gov.uk> wrote:

  I am not a Windows user, but I know that there is a configuration to
show recently used programs in start menu.   I think it can be
disabled, if one use the procedure to activate and simply uncheck the
option.

See:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/view-recently-used-programs-in-start-menu-in/bdb1e28b-31f6-460d-9714-82c00c5e0f01

 HTH

> 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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