Non entries in Start/All Programms...

[georg.viehoever]

... when installing PixInsight as an admin user, and using it as an ordinary user. Start Menu entries are only generated for admin, not for "All Users". This is a minor issues since the workaround is to manually copy the entries from admin to other users.

Georg

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Georg,

This is normal behavior, however you're right in that this is a bug on Windows.

On Linux (assuming a modern desktop manager) and Mac OS X, applications must be installed with administrative privileges, and are available to all users, unless who installs them explicitly hides them in some way. This is how PixInsight has been designed to work.

On Windows, however, the Start menu is a completely different beast. It's true that we still have to adapt to some Windows idiosyncrasies, and this is just an example. Thank you for pointing this out.

[georg.viehoever]

Hi Juan,

this is still here with 1.60. Minor bug, but probably also minor fix...

Georg

[Juan Conejero]

Minor bug, but probably also minor fix...

Probably, but first I should know how to fix it The problem is in the NSIS script that I use to generate installation packages for Windows. I don't promise you this will be fixed in the next version, but I'll try to digest more NSIS documentation, time permitting. Thanks for recalling it!

[georg.viehoever]

I think the key would be to make the menu entries in the "All Users" part of the start menue (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ %ALLUSERSPROFILE% ) instead of the current user part (e.g. C:\Users\georgv\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs %USERPROFILE%) . I dont know how you tell this in an install script.

Georg