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On 3/20/2017 4:23 PM, Kenneth wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
>
>>
>> The installer bears no blame for the confusion at all: The locations it
>> offers are just all the existing folders in "Start Menu: All Programs",
>> in case you want the POV-Ray entry (which is also a folder) to reside in
>> a subfolder rather than "All Programs" itself. (For instance, imagine
>> you had manually created a subfolder there earlier, called "3D Rendering
>> software", then you might wish to install POV-Ray in there.)
>>
>
> Ah, so *that's* what the installer means (ha)! OK, I think I'm finally starting
> to understand how to use the Windows OS (after using it for 17 years!!)
> Honestly, I have never installed a link to a program in a START-menu *subfolder*
> and never thought about doing so. OK, now I'm much smarter :-) Who says old dogs
> can't learn new tricks?!
>
>> The /confusion/ comes in there merely due to the fact Windows happens to
>> assign special functionality to one of the existing subfolders, namely
>> "Startup": Anything residing immediately in there (whether it is a
>> program, a document, a directory, or a link to any of those) is opened
>> whenever you start Windows.
>
> Hmm, Windows is trying to be too clever (or too irritating!) But I get it now.
> SO... in POV-Ray's installer (or *any* installer for that matter), when it asks
> where to put a link to the app (or rather, a link to the folder containing the
> app), and I happen to choose "startup" in the dialogue, it's the "POV-Ray for
> Windows v3.7-beta" FOLDER that gets placed in "startup" (not solely the
> pvengine.exe app itself)-- which is why only the FOLDER opened up when I
> restarted my machine (see my first posted screenshot), not POV-Ray itself.
> Eureka!
>
> (*** lightbulb goes on in brain ***)
>
>
Not quite. The "POV-Ray for Windows v3.7-beta" folder only contains
_shortcuts_ to the program. The actual program files are safely
installed in "C:\Program Files\POV-Ray\v3.7\" (unless you chose a
different location).
Mike
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