It's a bit confusing because removing a registry entry from the Registry view in the IDE is nothing to do with shortcuts and the Start-Programs menu. I assume that you actually have a shortcut in your setup, and it's in the File System view somewhere in User's Program Menu. So there are two main reasons why you see the shortcut only in the installing user's program menu:

1) You haven't set InstallAllUsers to true in the setup project, or the installing user is clicking through the dialog where it says Just me or Everyone, and it's installing for Just me, which means only for the current installing user, not for everyone.
2) You have set InstallAllUsers true and the installing user does not have admin privileges, so the install is falling back to do a just me install. You can't do an Everyone install and change the system's program menu unless you have admin privileges.

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Hi Pekka,

According to my test, when you create setup project and install the application to the user’s computer, it won’t write register enter into HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE by default.

I have also tested Phil Wilson’s suggestion. When you install the app for all users, you can login with a normal user account and run the app without any prompt. If you install the app for just me and copy the shortcut to the all users desktop and launch it from another account, it will say "The parameter is incorrect". But if you look into the application folder and launch the app directly, it runs properly.

That is to say, install for all users enable any normal user accounts (non-admin) on your computer to launch the app via shortcut. But if you install it for just me, other users cannot launch the app via shortcut.

I think you can create a simple application to test my opinion. Then turn to your current project to find if it writes any custom register key. If you have any problems, please feel free to tell us.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian
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Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework!

It's a bit confusing because removing a registry entry from the Registry view in the IDE is nothing to do with shortcuts and the Start-Programs menu. I assume that you actually have a shortcut in your setup, and it's in the File System view somewhere in User's Program Menu. So there are two main reasons why you see the shortcut only in the installing user's program menu:

1) You haven't set InstallAllUsers to true in the setup project, or the installing user is clicking through the dialog where it says Just me or Everyone, and it's installing for Just me, which means only for the current installing user, not for everyone.
2) You have set InstallAllUsers true and the installing user does not have admin privileges, so the install is falling back to do a just me install. You can't do an Everyone install and change the system's program menu unless you have admin privileges.

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Phil Wilson

Hi Pekka,

According to my test, when you create setup project and install the application to the user’s computer, it won’t write register enter into HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE by default.

I have also tested Phil Wilson’s suggestion. When you install the app for all users, you can login with a normal user account and run the app without any prompt. If you install the app for just me and copy the shortcut to the all users desktop and launch it from another account, it will say "The parameter is incorrect". But if you look into the application folder and launch the app directly, it runs properly.

That is to say, install for all users enable any normal user accounts (non-admin) on your computer to launch the app via shortcut. But if you install it for just me, other users cannot launch the app via shortcut.

I think you can create a simple application to test my opinion. Then turn to your current project to find if it writes any custom register key. If you have any problems, please feel free to tell us.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian
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Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework!

Hi Phil - you are pointing me to right direction..

1) I do have a Folder and a ShortCut in User's Program Menu, as I want to show our app in user's menu.
2) I have set InstallAllUsers to true.
3) When I install software as admin_user I can start it without any problems (as admin user)
4) When starting as normal user, then Windows says "configuring ..."and then starts the app. After first time everything works fine.

SO I quess this has to do with the Shortcut in User's Program Menu, but is there any other way to have our app in user's MenuBar ?

Cheers,

Pekka

Hi Kira,

You can repeat my problem as follows
1) Create a project (WindowsForm) and build it.
2) Create another project for same solution (SetUp project), and set install to all user's true
3) Add primary output from WindowsForm project into SetUp projects Application Folder.
4) Add a company_name -folder "FooBar Ltd" under "User's program menu"
5) Create a shortcut from Application Folder's primary_output and place it into "FooBar Ltd" -folder.

6) Install as admin
7) run as admin (everything ok)

8) login as "john doe normal user"
9) run from menu... and you should see a little window "Windows is configurating..."

Cheers,

Pekka

Hello Pekka,

Thank you for posting the detail steps. But after following the steps, I still cannot reproduce the issue. The application still launch immediately when I click the shortcut in programs menu under another user account.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian
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Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework!

This sounds normal to me, well it can be normal, let's say it that way. When you install using one account, any user-specific items get installed only for that user. For example, if you have got HKCU registry entries they get installed for the current installing user. They don't get installed for every potential user on the system. When some other user logs on, those items (like an HKCU registry item) is missing for this new user, so it gets created, and you see that progress dialog. You'll see something like this for files in user-profile folders too.

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