Shortcut doesn't work

alecs26April 11, 2017 at 9:08 PM#

Hello,

My NSIS script installs some shortcuts (desktop and start menu). It works well on several computers I tested.

 CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\AssystMouseBeta\AssystMouseBeta.lnk" "$INSTDIR\AssystMouseBetaV0R1.exe"

  CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\AssystMouseBeta.lnk" "$INSTDIR\AssystMouseBetaV0R1.exe"

However, on some computers, none of the shortcut is created. The thing they have in common is that I am not admin on these computers. When I run the installer, the administrator must give his user name and password.

Thank you very much,

Alex

AndersApril 12, 2017 at 12:19 AM#

Are you using SetShellVarContext in your script?

alecs26April 12, 2017 at 7:38 AM#

Thanks for your answer.
I am a newbie with NSIS and I used HM NIS Edit to create the script.

There is no SetShellVarContext in the script and I don't know what it does !

Thanks,

Alex

AndersApril 15, 2017 at 1:15 AM#

You could use Process Monitor to see where it tries to write and why it fails. Only Administrators can write to the shared startmenu folder in ProgramData.