Windows 7 Start Menu

I thought my installer was working correctly but I have just noticed some strange behaviour in Windows 7

If I install it as a user it allows me to uninstall fine, removes the startmenu items. But if I install as an admin and try and uninstall as a user it asks me to elevate and then leaves the icons in the start menu.

Which plugin or example should I be looking at the resolve my Windows 7 issues?

My installer is real simple, It just dumps some files into a folder in Program Files and doesn't use any registry entries at all.

I have added this section

Section
SetShellVarContext all
CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\mypack"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\mypack\myprog.lnk" "$INSTDIR\myprog.exe"
CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\myprog.lnk" "$INSTDIR\myprog.exe"
SectionEnd

As far as I am aware this should create the Start Menu items and the Desktop icon for all users, but it is not 🙁

Am I doing things right?

Use requestexecutionlevel admin to request admin access in the manifest, and then use userInfo::getAccountType in .onInit and un.onInit to verify that you have admin access.

Are there any more arguments to use with...

Function .oninit
userInfo::getAccountType
FunctionEnd

and

Function un.onInit
userInfo::getAccountType
MessageBox MB_ICONQUESTION|MB_YESNO|MB_DEFBUTTON2 "Are you sure you want to completely remove $(^Name) and all of its components?" IDYES +2
Abort
FunctionEnd

Yes, you actually need to check the result, http://nsis.pastebin.com/63tS3AS2

After much messing I have decided to go with the template you created a while ago at http://www.nsis.pastebin.com/PmiY8DuZ

This works for me and resolves the issue I have been having, only one more problem though I was wondering if you could help with.

I wanted to have a pre-defined Start Menu folder, currently when you get to the Start Menu page is just displays 'Product Name'

I want it to automatically display 'Company Name/Product Name'

I have messed about with MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_DEFAULTFOLDER but this just seems to break the installer, can you point me in the right direction?

Originally Posted by starfighter5 View Post

I have messed about with MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_DEFAULTFOLDER but this just seems to break the installer, can you point me in the right direction?

Break how? ( / could be a problem, try \ )

The only problem with nested folders is deleting them.

If I add !define MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_DEFAULTFOLDER "test\test2" to the top of my script, it works fine, but I need

${If} $SMDir != ""
    ###TODO: Delete "$SMPrograms\$SMDir\${APPNAME}.lnk"
    ClearErrors
    ${Do}
        RMDir "$SMPrograms\$SMDir"
        StrCpy $SMDir "$SMDir\.."
        ${IfThen} ${Errors} ${|} ${Break} ${|}
    ${Loop} 
${EndIf} 

to delete the folders

All working now, thanks for all the help 🙂

I've just spotted one last issue, because I have set the folder using....

!define MULTIUSER_INSTALLMODE_INSTDIR "Company Name\Product Name\Version"

When it comes to uninstalling, RMDir "$INSTDIR" only seems to delete the Version folder, the Company Name\ Product Name folder stays

Help!

Use the same code that Anders posted for that too.

Stu

Which particular code? The one from the pastebin link or the ammendment he posted a few replies back?

So am I right in thinking I can just add to this section instead of creating a whole new one for INSTdir?

!insertmacro ReadUninstData $SMDir SMDir

${If} $SMDir != ""

	###TODO: Delete "$SMPrograms\$SMDir\${APPNAME}.lnk"

	    Delete "$SMPrograms\$SMDir\${APPNAME}.lnk"

	    Delete "$SMPrograms\$SMDir\Uninstall.lnk"

	    Delete "$DESKTOP\programlink.lnk"

    ClearErrors

    ${Do}

        RMDir "$SMPrograms\$SMDir"

        StrCpy $SMDir "$SMDir\.."

        ${IfThen} ${Errors} ${|} ${Break} ${|}

    ${Loop}



${EndIf}

DeleteRegKey SHCTX "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\${REGUINSTKEY}"

Delete "$INSTDIR\uninstall.exe"

RMDir "$INSTDIR"

RMDir "$PROGRAMFILES\Company Name\Product Name"

RMDir "$PROGRAMFILES\Company Name"

messageBox MB_OK "$PROGRAMFILES\${MULTIUSER_INSTALLMODE_INSTDIR}"

SectionEnd

You could do it that way but that's not recursive. If you change $INSTDIR your code will no longer work. Up to you really.

Stu

Sorry to sound daft but I am struggling to adapt that code to work for the Current User install directory instead of SMDir which it currently does

StrCpy $R0 $INSTDIR

ClearErrors

${Do}

  RMDir $R0

  ${IfThen} ${Errors} ${|} ${Break} ${|}

  StrCpy $R0 `$R0\..`

${Loop}

Stu

Thanks for that, everything seems to be working!

I updated the samples with a general function for this, get it from http://sn.im/1tmfzt