NSIS - Desktop Shortcut For All Users

Question

How can I create desktop shortcuts for all user while installing a package?

Brewmaster

This usually means only the admin can delete your shortcut, uncool! – Chromatography

Answer 1

NSIS supports several of the common/shared special folders:

SetShellVarContext all
CreateShortcut "$desktop\myapp.lnk" "$instdir\myapp.exe"

This code assumes you are elevated...

Chromatography

This works for me on Windows 10. However, it doesn't seem to do the trick for a similar shortcut in the 'start programs' folder ($SMPROGRAMS). – Lotti

In MUI2, you have to !insertmacro MUI_STARTMENU_WRITE_BEGIN Application to set $SMPROGRAMS. When you are done _END – Foreignborn

Answer 2

With !include NTProfiles.nsh [1] you can create a shortcut in the folder "${ProfilePathAllUsers}\Desktop".

[1] - http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NT_Profile_Paths

Epicene

Hi Robert.. Thanks for the solution.. but it seems to b not working in my package maker 1.1.. Is there any constraints bcoz of version.? I adden NTProfiles.nsh in Include Folder and given the path as u mentioned... Thanks.. – Brewmaster

This code uses undocumented registry values! NSIS has native support for the shared desktop folder so this kind of thing is not required nor recommended! – Chromatography