[Qgis-user] Rogue start menu shortcut

Thu May 23 11:53:39 PDT 2019

On Thu, 23 May 2019 15:35:38 -0300, "Fernando M. Roxo da Motta"
<petro at roxo.org> wrote:

  It seems that it can be reached in the config>customization>start.

> 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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