Nsis: How to create a start menu shortcut to open a folder?

Question

My NSIS installer creates start menu links to launch and uninstall my application.

Using NSIS, how to create a StartMenu shortcut to open a folder in Windows Explorer?

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Mark beckwith May 20, '09 at 22:16

1 answer

Anders · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-20T22:46:11+0000

like any other shortcut

CreateShortcut "$smprograms\my app\my shortcut.lnk" "c:\path\to\folder"

this is a conductor in 99% of cases and its really what you want, but if you want to force explorer

 CreateShortcut "$smprograms\my app\my shortcut.lnk" "$windir\explorer.exe" '/e,"c:\path\to\folder"'

but this shortcut will have the wrong icon, etc.