SendTo links not working for "limited" (i.e. non-admin) accounts

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I received the following e-mail report from a user:

"I am a limited user. When I install Winhasher, I run it as Windows 
Administrator and enter Admin password. However, then the in the limited 
account I always use, I do not see the 'send to' commands in windows explorer.

"To avoid this, when I install Winhasher to a computer, I have to give my 
limited account temporarly Admin power. This is not convenient I believe."

I haven't been able to follow up on this, but it sounds like the installer is 
setting up the SendTo links for the admin account but not for non-admin 
accounts. Either that, or it's forcing the user to run WinHasher as an admin 
user in order to get it to work. I don't know what operating system the user is 
operating under; the user wrote from a GMail account, so there are no clues in 
the message headers about the client OS. Presumably, he/she is using Windows 7 
or 8.

I'll try and run some tests on my non-development Windows 7 machine, which 
should have WinHasher installed in the same manner as a typical user would.

This may or may not be related to closed Issue 5.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Dec 2013 at 7:47

[gpfjeff]

OK, now that I've had a bit more time to look at this, I have some bad news. There's no such animal as a common Send To folder on any version of Windows. This means that the best the installer can do is to add shortcuts for the "currently active" user, and if a limited user bumps themselves up to admin temporarily to install the app, the shortcuts will be added to the admin user account, not the limited account. The only way for this to work as the app stands right now is for the installing user to switch their account from a limited account to an admin account, install WinHasher, and then switch them back to a limited account. This option, of course, is not always available. The only other alternative is to manually create the shortcuts.

So it looks like I'm going to have to rip the Send To shortcuts completely out of the installer code. The only "automated" alternative I can provide is to put an option within the WinHasher code itself to create (and optionally remove) the Send To shortcuts. The best approach I can think of is to put a new Options button (perhaps between the About and Close buttons) that will open a new dialog for additional options. Then I can build a UI to add the shortcuts. I'm not thrilled about this, but it doesn't look like I have any other choice. I know I personally use the Send To shortcuts a lot, so I imagine other users will find them just as useful. I'd hate to abandon them altogether.