Start menu Folder and Icons will be deleted in Windows11

[Knulli]

Hi all,

i'm using IS6.2.1.

Under Windows 11 I observed, that after installation of my program, the Start Menu folder / icons of my just installed program disappers some seconds after the installation process. Under Win7 all works fine.

Any ideas?

[Gavin Lambert]

On 7/12/2022 04:27, Knulli wrote:
> Under Windows 11 I observed, that after installation of my program, the
> Start Menu folder / icons of my just installed program disappers some
> seconds after the installation process. Under Win7 all works fine.

That's just how Win8+ rolls.

The official Microsoft guidelines for start menu icons is to install a
single icon in {commonprograms} for your application only. Any
auxiliary icons for docs/etc should be in menus inside your app, and
uninstall should never have an icon; the user just uses the control panel.

Only in the case where you're installing a suite of related apps (either
in one installer or across several related installers) should you create
a group, and even that should still only have a single icon for each app.