We have Windows 8.1 64 bit machine.
We Installed the latest Windows 8.1 Update on this machine. And found the below issue.
We installed an application and found working it properly.
If we click on Windows button and search application description
then, we noticed search charm shows two application short-cuts.
1. Right click on first short-cut pointing to multiple options like - Pin to start, taskbar, uninstall, file location path, etc and after click on any menu item it works successfully. Even file location shows proper 'program files' folder.
2. Right click on second short-cut does not give any option. But, after click on this short-cut application launches successfully.
Also, after uninstall of this application. We found the second short-cut still exist.
We searched through complete registry and did not found any reference of the same application. Even 'program files' folder got cleaned, too.
But, click on second icon in the search charm we got an error -
"Windows cannot find C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\en-US\NameSpace_Classic_{940B1CC9-013F-468Ee-BBBF-4A975461F120}.settingcontent-ms" Make sure you typed name correctly, and then try again."
Kindly note - here {940B1CC9-013F-468Ee-BBBF-4A975461F120} is our application installer GUID.
The above file was present when application was installed and after uninstall above file got deleted.
But, the short-cut still exists.
Please let me know how we remove this second short-cut while installation. The same application installation does not show this kind of behaviour on other OS's or fresh 8.1 Windows. It happened after only upgrading it with latest Windows 8.1 update.
Thanks - Shashi