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Silent deploy does not create start menu entry nor appwiz entry #3316

Open adelphi-company opened 1 year ago

adelphi-company commented 1 year ago

Flameshot Version

12.1.0

Installation Type

Linux, MacOS, or Windows Package manager (apt, pacman, eopkg, choco, brew, ...)

Operating System type and version

Windows 11 21H2

Description

If you deploy the MSI with a deplyoment tool which is usually running in system context, no start menu entry is created and also not control panel enry for uninstall.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Download sysinternals psexec to c:\temp https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/sysinternals/downloads/psexec

  2. Download Flameshot to c:\temp\Flameshot-12.1.0-win64.msi

  3. Run "cmd" as admin

  4. cd c:\temp

  5. psexec -s %COMSPEC% /c msiexec /qn /norestart /i c:\temp\Flameshot-12.1.0-win64.msi

Problems: a) appwiz.cpl does not list Flameshot b) %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ does not list Flameshot although "C:\Program Files\Flameshot\bin\flameshot.exe" exists.

Screenshots or screen recordings

No response

System Information

Windows 11 21H2

subrandom commented 10 months ago

FWIW, I can confirm this happens to me as well. Silent installation is not producing an entry in Installed Programs, a start menu item or desktop item. Installing via winget work as expected.

The original report is for 22H2, I'm on 23H2.