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Thread Desktop Shortcuts Not Created
Mon, Apr 10 2017 10:59 PMPermanent Link

Frederick Chin

When I installed 2.06 in Windows 10, the desktop shortcuts for the IDE and server are not created despite not checking the box to not create the shortcuts.

I had to manually create the shortcuts.

Could there be something wrong with the installation file?

Note: There are no previous installations of EWB on this computer.

-- Frederick
Tue, Apr 11 2017 4:16 AMPermanent Link

Matthew Jones

Frederick Chin wrote:

> When I installed 2.06 in Windows 10, the desktop shortcuts for the IDE and server are not created despite not checking the box to not create the shortcuts.
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> I had to manually create the shortcuts.
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> Could there be something wrong with the installation file?
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> Note: There are no previous installations of EWB on this computer.

I just tried on a clean Windows 7, and it has shortcuts. There is the "don't create shortcuts" option, but that was not checked by default.

And now also on my Windows 10 machine which had the betas, and it too has shortcuts.

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Matthew Jones
Tue, Apr 11 2017 9:02 AMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Frederick,

<< When I installed 2.06 in Windows 10, the desktop shortcuts for the IDE and server are not created despite not checking the box to not create the shortcuts.

I had to manually create the shortcuts.

Could there be something wrong with the installation file? >>

Not that I'm aware of.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Tue, Apr 11 2017 8:24 PMPermanent Link

Frederick Chin

Tim,

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Not that I'm aware of.
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I guess it is one of those unexplained things.

Thanks for the reply.

-- Frederick
Wed, Apr 12 2017 1:51 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

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Frederick,

Sorry, I mis-read your original post.  If you're expecting *desktop* icons/shortcuts, then you won't get those with EWB.  It only installs to the Start Menu's programs menu, and then only if you don't select the check box for disabling this during the setup.

You will just need to drag/drop the Start menu shortcuts on to the desktop.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Wed, Apr 12 2017 9:44 PMPermanent Link

Frederick Chin

Tim,

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Sorry, I mis-read your original post.  If you're expecting *desktop* icons/shortcuts, then you won't get those with EWB.  It only installs to the Start Menu's programs menu, and then only if you don't select the check box for disabling this during the setup.

You will just need to drag/drop the Start menu shortcuts on to the desktop.
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Thanks. This clears things up.

May I ask, out of curiosity, why an option to create desktop shortcuts was not provided?

-- Frederick
Thu, Apr 13 2017 12:12 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Frederick,

<< May I ask, out of curiosity, why an option to create desktop shortcuts was not provided? >>

It's not really an EWB thing, but rather a hold-over from the fact that our other products prior to EWB were more along the lines of "component sets" as opposed to full-blown applications.

I'll add something for EWB soon.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
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