I have a c program built with visual studio. An NSIS installer creates a shortcut for the program in the start menu. But the shortcut is not highlighted-as it is the case for all newly installed programs in Windows. Here it says that I have to add the version resource to my program; Which I did, but still no highlights. Windows 10 x64 Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

I don't think Windows 10 will highlight your new shortcut. If it appears in the "Recently added" section then Windows has correctly detected your new shortcut.

Windows XP to 7 highlighted new shortcuts in a different color. Windows 8 would promote a new shortcut as a tile on the start screen.

Windows 8 and later does some filtering to new shortcuts. Anything that points to a help file, URL or the uninstaller may be hidden.