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Preventing upgrades from installing shortcuts on Windows 7 Home

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20261643 views
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Possible Duplicate: Can you block installers from making desktop shortcuts? How can I prevent installers and upgrades from summarily dropping shortcuts into the on Windows 7 Home? Every time I update iTunes or firefox or acroread or flash or the gimp or whatever-needs-frequent-updating, the update …

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Fix for: Preventing upgrades from installing shortcuts on Windows 7 Home

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I think this is just coincidence; the behavior shouldn't have changed in Win7. It's still controlled by the installers. I certainly haven't seen it happening.

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