Author Topic: Windows 7 shortcut installation/User profile issue.  (Read 2064 times)

brian.r.hamilton

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Windows 7 shortcut installation/User profile issue.
« on: March 03, 2011, 09:47:53 PM »
It looks like there is a small problem with the TF install under Windows 7.  If you install from your Administrator account, the Start Menu shortcuts folder is placed in the Roaming profile for Administrator only.  If you then install from a User account, in an attempt to get the shortcuts to appear in the User Start Menu, no additional shortcuts are created.  In other words, if you install from your Administrator account, no shortcuts to run TF will be available to other Users & installing from those User Accounts may not fix the problem (it may depend on User rights settings?).

One simple fix is to Copy & Paste the Topofusion folder from the Start Menu of the Administrator folder to the All Users Start Menu.  Maybe I should have Moved it instead, but I didn't want to potentially break the Uninstall process.  Windows is smart enough to merge the two Start Menus so only 1 set of Topofusion shortcuts is displayed in the Administrator Start Menu.

A better fix would be for the TF installer to place the Topofusion shortcuts folder in the All Users or Default Profile Start Menu... something like that.  Whatever most other applications do.  I still haven't figured exactly how Windows 7 manages the Start Menu vs. Windows XP, but it is different for sure & Topofusion isn't doing something right here.