Bug 168758 - How do I disable the "Create a shortcut on the desktop" option during upgrade?
Summary: How do I disable the "Create a shortcut on the desktop" option during upgrade?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
4.0 all versions
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2025-10-08 21:33 UTC by Scott Lindley
Modified: 2026-01-21 19:01 UTC (History)
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Description Scott Lindley 2025-10-08 21:33:49 UTC
Description:
I have LibreOffice installed on a number of Windows hosts. Every time I upgrade LibreOffice the installer has the "Create a shortcut on the desktop" option selected. I don't want a shortcut on my desktop, and I'd like to know how to disable this so I don't have to uncheck it every time I upgrade. I upgrade relatively frequently and I'd like to not have to remember to uncheck this every time on every host. IMHO it should remember the previous choice and continue to honor it. Please advise as to how I can disable this and save a small portion of my sanity.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Initiate an upgrade of LibreOffice
2. Click thru the first couple of requestors
3. Note with annoyance that the installer still has the "Create a shortcut on the desktop" option selected
4. De-select the option
5. Suppress the repeated annoyance
6. Click thru the remaining requestors

Actual Results:
The "Create a shortcut on the desktop" option continues to be selected

Expected Results:
The "Create a shortcut on the desktop" option remembers your previous selection (de-selected in my case)


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2026-01-21 19:01:02 UTC
(In reply to m_a_riosv from comment #1)
> Have you taken a look into
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/
> Deployment_and_Migration#Post_deployment_configuration?

Indeed,

Property

During installation you can set these properties. The list is not complete, here are some examples:
CREATEDESKTOPLINK (default=1) - create desktop shortcut icon