TC 11.02 installer won't create Start menu icons under WS2022

[ondrej]

I have noticed that version 11.02 won't create Start menu links under Windows Server 2022 when running in unattended mode using an INF file. When the interactive installer is used, Start menu shortcut icons are created correctly.

My unattended setup uses the install.exe and I have been using this method since version 8.52 at least. I read some posts and wiki about custom installers — please note that is not my case. For the sake of clarity, let me explain that to make the unattended install I do this:

1. Unpack the installer such as tcmd1102x64.exe into a folder
2. Copy install.exe from the previous version's folder — the timestamp is 23.11.2016 09:00 and file size is 155728 bytes
3. Customize install.inf to match my options
4. Add custom wincmd.ini and wincmd.key

Then I run install.exe to setup the program. I am not using install64.exe.

This is probably the older method, but worked fine for me and thanks to its simplicity it's preferred.

Note that I tried version 9.51, which worked flawlessly on previous versions of Windows Server, and the icons aren't created as well.

[ondrej]

I figured out this can be solved by the latest version of the legacy installer found here: https://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php?title=Custom_installer

I didn't notice there was a newer version. Feel free to delete this thread.

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks for the followup! It may help other users, so I'm moving it to the English forum.

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Moved to English forum