Git for windows.lnk - start menu shortcut for winotoast.exe?

[brow...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I found such shortcut in my start menu. It's useless. Why and when it was created by git for windows?

BR Adam

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

1. It is "Windows", not "windows" (the former is an operating system, the
latter is used in construction). Therefore, I am 100% certain that Git
for Windows would never install "Git for windows.lnk".

2. You probably meant "wintoast.exe", not "winotoast.exe"? This file _is_
shipped with Git for Windows, but there is no code in
https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/master/installer/install.iss
that would install that Start Menu item.

So I suspect that this shortcut was created either manually, or by a
software _other_ than Git for Windows.

Ciao,
Johannes

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[brow...@gmail.com]

So I suspect that this shortcut was created either manually, or by a
software _other_ than Git for Windows.

You are wrong. Today I was used "git update" command and this shortcut reapeard after that. So it is something in Git for Windows that creating it. Nevermind, now I know when it is created.

[Philip Oakley]

Philip: Hmm, so I went looking to see what I have on my machine. (here's the pedantic results;-)

1. I started by typing "toast" into the taskbar search box. Got no sensible results.

2. Tried typing "wintoast" and the search box found (best match) "Git for Windows" (App) [with those capitals]

3. right clicked on the icon and selected 'Open File Location`, which started an explorer window at:

   > This PC > Win10 OS SSD (C:) > Users > Phili > AppData > Roaming > Microsoft > Windows > Start Menu > Programs

  Highlighted was the "Git for Windows" shortcut file dated 07/10/2018 2KB

4. Right click shortcut file and select Properties. Target and Start in are set to "C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\wintoast.exe"

So given that I'm uptodate with the recent security fixes (used same setting box ticked -> git version 2.26.2.windows.1), and browerowy's comments about removal/replaced, it does look as if it is installed from somewhere in the Git install, and is left untouched if there is no change to the app.

The installer is in the build-extra repo https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra  should browerowy want to investigate further.

Philip

[Philip Oakley]

I got the GitHub search capability working for me

https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/search?q=wintoast.exe&unscoped_q=wintoast.exe

@browerowy want to investigate further?
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Philip