Monday, August 30, 2010

The Start Menu

Don't you hate it when you download some application on your computer and it installs itself under some obscure company name in the Windows start menu?

You visit a website and decided to download something - Video Editor 8.1. But since the default behavior of most installer creators is to put the shortcut under a folder with the company's name you find yourself scouring the start menu from top to bottom until you find Video Editor 8.1 hiding under Blue Fish Studios... jeez, I can't count how many time that happened to me.

People, if you're writing an installer for your application, unless you're either Microsoft, Google, Oracle or Adobe I don't remember your company's name, and I'll hate your program before I even start using because you've hidden it from me!



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