Uninstall option missing from Windows 10 Start icon context menu for application installed with Inno Setup

Question

I created an install file with Inno Setup 5.5.9 that I then ran on a Windows 10 machine. My only problem has to do with uninstalling the program. I can use the Control Panel just fine to uninstall. But in the Start menu, when I right click on the shortcut that launches my program, there is no option in the context menu to Uninstall. Other programs do have this option.

Is this a Windows 10 thing that I can't get around?

Does the program need to be installed under Program Files or Program Files (x86)?

Or is there a change I can make to my Inno script to have the uninstall option show up?

I'm a standard user on the Windows 10 machine, and therefore installed the program without administrative privileges. Does that have anything to do with it?

Answer 1

Only "Windows apps" (aka Universal Windows Platform [UWP] apps, Windows Store apps and Metro-style apps) have working "Uninstall" command.

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Classic "Desktop apps", like those installed with Inno Setup, do not. Their Uninstall command only opens "Program and Features" Control Panel. Check other major desktop apps, like Microsoft Visual Studio or Google Chrome. Their "Uninstall" command behaves the same. And they are definitely not packaged by Inno Setup.

You would have to re-package your desktop app to turn it to "Windows app", instead of using Inno Setup.

Answer 2

I had the same problem. In my case sometimes only the uninstall shortcut in windows start menu disappers.

I somehow fixed it. Just use in Icons-section the command to create this shortcut twice. Their names need to differ.

For example:

Name: "{group}\{#Uninstall_Name} {#MyAppName}"; Filename: "{uninstallexe}";IconFilename: {app}\{#IconFileStartDesktop};

Name: "{group}\{#MyAppName} {#Uninstall_Name}"; Filename: "{uninstallexe}" ;IconFilename: {app}\{#IconFileStartDesktop};

If the first uninstall-shorcut does not show up, the second one enter code here will to it.