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Lister
Lister

Reputation: 1118

Visual studio 2015 missing start menu icons Windows 8

We are currently trying to deploy Visual studio 2015 Professional across our school in a windows 8 domain environment. Visual studio installs fine but its shortcut are missing from the start menu. and the search feature does not find visual studio. The program can be ran directly.

I have found some of the shortcuts in: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Visual Studio Tools" however these are only for the command prompt tools and not for visual studio itself.

Is there anywhere else the shortcuts may be?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7450

Answers (3)

M.Hassan
M.Hassan

Reputation: 11032

The installation move the shortcut for visual studio 2015 outside the 2015 folder to be consistent with other Microsoft applications.

Type: Windows key to use "Search for programs and files", type "Visual Studio" to open VS quickly.

or

Type: Windows key , click All programs, then click "visual studio 2015"

Upvotes: 0

Lister
Lister

Reputation: 1118

As it turns out our domain has a script that deletes any shortcuts not in a sub folder - That would explain why the shortcuts are disappearing!

We have added a line to our install script to place the shortcut in the sub directory.

Upvotes: 1

torpid prey
torpid prey

Reputation: 242

I found the same thing happened with my installation under Windows 7

Instead of the shortcuts being inside the Visual Studio 2015 start menu programs directory, I found them one level up in the parent directory - somewhere I did not expect them to be.

Upvotes: 21

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