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Background Android O has various changes of how shortcuts work: https://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html#as The problem According to recent changes on Android O, the broadcast intent to create shortcuts is completely ignored : https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_CREATE_SHORTCUT https://developer.android.com/preview/behavior-changes.html#as The com.android.launcher.action.INSTALL_SHORTCUT broadcast no longer has any effect on your app, because it is now a private, implicit broadcast. Instead, you should create an app shortcut by using

I have several applications that I tend to need open at the same time, and rather than relying solely on the Startup folder to launch them at the same time (and so I can reopen all of them if some were closed at some point throughout the day) I created a folder full of shortcuts in a similar fashion to Linux's runlevel startup links. So in the folder I have shortcut links similar to: S00 - Outlook.lnk S01 - Notepad++.lnk S02 - Chrome.lnk S03 - Skype.lnk I created a batch file that will loop through all the links that match the naming format and launch them. The contents of that batch file

I am trying to add a shortcut or a button in notepad++ to call an external program on the file I am currently editing. For example, let's say I have the program " analyzer.jar ". I would like to create a button (or shortcut) in notepad++ that would directly run the command " cmd -K java -jar analyzer.jar "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH) ". Since I haven't found any solution yet, any help would be deeply appreciated :). alphabetbet Well, in fact I found how easy it is to create a shortcut for a command: Go in the menu and select " Run → Run... " (or press f5 ) Type your command Click on " Save

I have a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio 2010. I would like the installer to create two shortcuts to the executable of another project in my solution. One normal shortcut that simply runs the application using current credentials and another which has the Run as administrator flag set, thereby ensuring that the user is asked for credentials with administrative rights when clicking the shortcut. Running the application with administrative rights enables certain features that are otherwise not available. Setting this flag doesn't seem to be possible at first glance. Can this be

I am trying to retrieve the target path of a Windows .lnk shortcut, but the "Target" is not an actual file path according to the .lnk file's properties: I am using the IWshRuntimeLibrary and the shortcut object I am accessing is of type IWshShortcut: WshShell shell = new WshShell(); IWshShortcut link = (IWshShortcut)shell.CreateShortcut(lnkFileName); // This returns "C:\Windows\Installer\{F843C6A3-224D-4615-94F8-3C461BD9AEA0}\PaintShopProExeIcon.ico" var targetPath = link.TargetPath; // This is the same as the "Start in" value in the image above var workingDir = link.WorkingDirectory; The