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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi </span>community<span lang=EN-US>,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>we are using NSIS (CPack) for our Windows installers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Our current setup looks like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> ;Create shortcuts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\$STARTMENU_FOLDER"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>@CPACK_NSIS_CREATE_ICONS@<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>@CPACK_NSIS_CREATE_ICONS_EXTRA@<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\$STARTMENU_FOLDER\Uninstall.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>With the $INSTDIR set to top level directory (not the bin with the executables). The problem is that we need to set the ‘Start in’ path for the created shortcut to the bin directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Using this code:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\bin"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>CreateShortcut "$SMPROGRAMS\$STARTMENU_FOLDER\ TEST.lnk" "$INSTDIR\bin\Test.exe"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>we have a workaround but we would prefer to change the ‘Start in’ path for the @CPACK_NSIS_CREATE_ICONS@ command without manually adding shortcuts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>