$APPDATA Not Making Use of SetShellVarContext all

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pwnestoJune 28, 2018 at 5:15 PM#

$APPDATA Not Making Use of SetShellVarContext all

Hi,

I'm trying to install to the SendTo folder for each user. $SENDTO in the manual does not make use of 'SetShellVarContext all' so I'm trying the following:

SetShellVarContext all
CreateShortCut '$APPDATA\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo\[AppName].lnk' '[AppPath]' '%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll' 168

The result still installs the link to the admin's SendTo directory only. The same method does work for Start Menu icons. Could this be a bug in $APPDATA?

Thanks!

pwnestoJune 28, 2018 at 5:57 PM#

Maybe this is more of a Windows limitation. It looks like the C:\ProgramData\... directory holds the Start Menu links which get replicated to every user, but Windows doesn't have a mechanism to do the same thing for SendTo links?

AndersJune 28, 2018 at 9:57 PM#

No, there is no common/"all users" SendTo folder, only the Start Menu and Desktop merges the user and common shell folders (Desktop is not merged on older versions of Windows IIRC).