{"id":102342,"date":"2019-03-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=102342"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:36:26","slug":"20190319-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190319-00\/?p=102342","title":{"rendered":"Why does my app&#8217;s uninstaller disappear from the Start menu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer reported that their installer creates a shortcut on the Start menu called <i>Uninstall Contoso Deluxe<\/i>, but a few seconds after their installer completes, the <i>Uninstall Contoso Deluxe<\/i> icon disappears from the Start menu. The main <i>Contoso Deluxe<\/i> shortcut is still there. What&#8217;s going on? <\/p>\n<p>The uninstaller shortcut is removed from the Start menu to reduce clutter. You can uninstall apps from the <i>Apps<\/i> page in <i>Settings<\/i>, or from the <i>Programs and Features<\/i> control panel (formerly known as <i>Add or Remove Programs<\/i>). You can also get to the uninstaller by right-clicking <i>Contoso Deluxe<\/i> and selecting <i>Uninstall<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Adding an uninstaller icon to Start menu is triply redundant, and it puts uninstallers in a high-traffic area of the user interface, when users are mostly looking for apps to run, not apps to uninstall. <\/p>\n<p>The uninstaller shortcut is still there, so your uninstaller won&#8217;t get confused when it tries to delete the uninstaller shortcut. But the Start menu doesn&#8217;t show it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping things tidy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-102342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Keeping things tidy.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}