[tor-bugs] #16743 [Tor Browser]: Reconsider "Add Start Menu & Desktop shortcuts" option (Windows)

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#16743: Reconsider "Add Start Menu & Desktop shortcuts" option (Windows)
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 Reporter:  discer       |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor        |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:
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 One of Tor Browser's stated objetives is leaving not too much traces in
 the user's computer; in particular, after deleting it from the desktop, it
 should be mostly gone.

 The desktop shortcut is mostly useless when installing to the desktop, you
 have another shortcut right inside the "Tor Browser" folder, so it looks a
 bit silly.

 The more "scary" one is the start menu one, which resides inside
 "$HOMEPATH$\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs", and is
 more troubling. With no uninstaller, users have to remember to delete it
 manually and may miss it completely, specially on some newer versions of
 Windows where the list of programs is kind of hidden, and where deleting
 shortcuts is much more involved (can't right click -> delete directly).

 So I think, at the very lest, the Start Menu shortcut shouldn't be created
 by default.

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