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europeOS's avatar
4 years ago

Please stop re-adding the 'App Recovery' start menu shortcut

Every time the EA App performs an update, a Start Menu shortcut named 'App Recovery' is re-added to my Start Menu within the 'EA' folder, despite me removing it every time.

I don't know why it's considered a de-facto standard to place Start Menu shortcuts within a folder named after the vendor, but I don't like it so I always move the shortcuts I want to keep (ie; the EA App itself, not the bundled software) into the root of my Start Menu directory.

However, the EA App insists that each and every time it performs an update, that 'App Recovery' shortcut which I removed is actually necessary and EA knows better.  Not only that, but it needs to go into a special 'EA' folder within the Start Menu.

Please please please, stop re-adding this shortcut.  I do not want it.  If something goes wrong with my EA App client, my first port of call is going to be Google, regardless of whether you put this shortcut on my Start Menu.  Stop it.

8 Replies

  • Completely agree.

    I am very OCD with my Start Menu structure, and it's so damn annoying.

  • This can only be combatted by moving the Start Menu items around manually, there isn't a fix we can perform on our end & EA don't seem particularly interested in resolving it.

    That being said, since the solution is a simple sequence of move & delete operations, there isn't anything stopping us from making a simple shell script & executing that on startup via the Task Scheduler.

  • Well I kinda fixed it. Just set that file HIDDEN and it is gone.

  • @syroxete thank you so much for this, i cant believe how i didnt think of this earlier! finally that useless folder is gone.

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