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Author:  seanb [ Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
I'm using win 8.1 and when I install a programme it doesn't create a folder or shortcut to it in the All Programs section
Author:  Ivo [ Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
There is a checkbox for that in the installer. Maybe you unchecked it?
Author:  seanb [ Thu Aug 14, 2014 1:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
So I should re-install?
Author:  Ivo [ Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Yes, you will have to uninstall, then install again. Make sure the checkbox is marked.
Author:  seanb [ Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
I uninstalled and installed the latest version 4.1.0 and there was no options other than to choose the instal path and now it doesn't work. I have the awful windows button that takes me to the apps.
Author:  Ivo [ Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Right above the install path there should be a checkbox "Create a start menu folder". Did you not see it?
Author:  seanb [ Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
It was already ticked.\
i've reinstalled so will have to wait until I install a new programme and see if it creates a shortcut
Author:  Ivo [ Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Oh, so you are not talking about the Classic Shell shortcuts, but some other program? It is up to that program's installer to create shortcuts. Classic Shell has no control over that.
Author:  Gaurav [ Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Yes, the shortcut-creation inside the Start Menu\Program folders is the job of the installer. Classic Start Menu only does the job of displaying those shortcuts.
Author:  seanb [ Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Ok. It's just that I installed adobe CS6 master collection and no shortcuts in the start menu program folder.
Nothing gets created and placed in there
Author:  Ivo [ Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Did the new programs show up in the Windows start menu? If so, can you find where those shortcuts are located?
Author:  Gaurav [ Tue Aug 19, 2014 10:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Yes check on the Start screen's "Apps view" to see if the shortcuts are getting created there. If you see CS6 shortcuts, right click them and choose Open File Location so you will know if the Start Menu or Programs folder has been redirected.
Author:  seanb [ Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Do you mean the tab screen that appears when you click on "Start" when you hover your cursor over the right side of the screen?
If so then no. They aren't there. In fact nothing installed apart from winrar and maybe one or two other programmes I've installed show up.
Author:  Gaurav [ Fri Aug 22, 2014 5:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
I mean the Apps View of the Start screen - the one that appears when you press Ctrl+Tab on the regular tiles view of the Start screen.
Author:  seanb [ Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Yeah they don't appear there although I installed something today and it showed up so maybe whatever was blocking shortcuts from being made has gone
Author:  seanb [ Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
Nope. New installed programmes are still not showing up.
Sick of this as I've used this programme since shortly after I got win 8. If this continues to not work I'll have to find alternatives sadly.
Author:  Ivo [ Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
If programs don't show up in the start screen then something is wrong with your system (unrelated to Classic Shell).

The whole premise of the start menu (and start screen) hinges on the premise that installers put shortcuts in the Start Menu folder or its Programs sub-folder, and that where the system goes looking for the installed programs. In your case that mechanism appears broken.

I doubt an alternative to Classic Shell will solve your problem, since every such software looks for programs in the same place. Unless you are talking about an alternative to Windows 8 :)
Author:  Gaurav [ Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:20 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Doesn't create links for new installed programmes
The shortcut creation system is part of Windows. They are not created by Classic Shell, the menu only does the job of showing them. So you will have the same problem with any other menu.
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