Start menu under Windows Vista

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MUI_STARTMENU_WRITE_BEGIN only gets the user's value into
the variable specified when inserting the MUI_PAGE_STARTMENU
macro, or the value from the registry if
MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_ROOT was used. Nothing too
special... It should work on Vista as well.

What exactly happens when you use MUI_STARTMENU_WRITE_BEGIN?
Does anything get printed to the log? Does Examples\Modern
UI\StartMenu.nsi function properly?

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The example script runs properly.

The attachment contains a part of the log file create by our
NSIS installer, the code sequence used to build the start
menu and screen dumps from Vistas start menu.

The log contains the CreateShortCut items but nothing
happens in the start menu.

ZIP archiev with four files

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Do the .lnk file get created? Does it simply ignore the .lnk
files? Maybe it doesn't show them because it can't find the
link target?

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No, there aren't any files in the start menu folders.

Folder structure

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Maybe it has a problem with the working directory. Try using
SetOutPath $INSTDIR instead of SetOutPath
$SMPROGRAMS\$StartMenuFolder. Also attach the complete code,
the directory creation code is missing.

And why are the shortcuts written to the startup folder?

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The complete script is attached.
We don't write anything into the startup folder with our script.
We will try INSTDIR instad of $SMPROGRAMS\$StartMenuFolder
next week. I'm out of the office now.

Complete setup script

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We changed the OutPath to INSTDIR. The start menu items are
now correctly build - not immediately but after the next
logon. There might be some problems in the current Vista
beta release.

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It's weird that it works with the example, but not with your
setup. Maybe there's something else in the setup causing
this? Maybe some API call sets it into a compatibility mode
that has a problem with the start menu shortcuts. Can you
try moving the shortcuts creation upwards so it'll be called
as early as possible during the installation?

I think I have a copy of Vista Beta 1 at work. I hope I'll
get some time to play around with it and maybe find out
what's going on here.

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I've tested Examples\Modern UI\StartMenu.nsi on Vista beta 1
and it created the shortcuts, but didn't show them.
Strangely, I just installed NSIS on this computer and it did
show its shortcuts. The difference is that the NSIS package
installer calls SHChangeNotify. I'll wait for the next beta
to see if it still happens there. If it does, a call to
SHChangeNotify should be added.

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Have you tested this on one of the newer CTPs?

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No, we haven't received a Vista CTP with the MSDN DVDs yet.
We will download the latest CTP and perform the tests as
soon as possible.

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We've just testet our installers (created with NSIS 2.10 and
2.17) under Windows Vista Beta2 (Build 5384, German) and
everything seams to be OK in Vistas start menu. All
shortcuts have been properly created.

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Good to hear. Please reopen this bug or open a new one if
the problem reoccurs.