Question

I’m trying to use NSIS for installing my application.
When trying to create shortcut on the desktop, it fails.
this is the script relevant part i’m using:

SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
File "${BIN_DIRECTORY}\app.exe"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\app\app.lnk" "$INSTDIR\app.exe"
CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\app.lnk" "$INSTDIR\app.exe"

This is the log:

Extract: app.exe... 100%
Create shortcut: C:\Users\roeia\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\app\app.lnk
Error creating shortcut: E:\Users\roeia\Desktop\app.lnk

the path is correct, and i don’t have any problem to create or modify files there.
I’m using windows 7 64bit.
Thanks for helping!

Answer 1

It might be a right problem: do you run the installer as admin?

Specifying RequestExecutionLevel in the script may help to do so:

RequestExecutionLevel admin ;try also with 'highest'