Start Menu Shortcuts and UAC

[Link_Satonaka]

Hello! Just writing in to let you know there is a logical error in the way you have configured the makeMKV installer.

You have the installer forcibly require UAC upon launch, and then place the shortcuts in the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu of the account which runs the installer. In the conventional UAC elevation scenario, Start Menu shortcuts will end up in the private start menu of the admin user, which is inaccessible to other users.

There are two ways to fix this

1. Bypass the issue by placing the shortcuts in the public Start Menu

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C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

2. Configure the installer to be more UAC compliant, only requesting elevation when necessary. This way, there will be no unnecessary UAC prompt should the user choose to not install to Program Files. It would be appropriate to use the current account's

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%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

under this approach.


Thanks!