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Updating Ride removes desktop shortcut on windows #1362

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Describe the issue you are having

Updating Ride removes desktop shortcut

Did you connect to an already running interpreter or start the interpreter from Ride?

N/A

How do you reproduce the issue?

Have a desktop shortcut for Ride.
Updating will remove this, and then need to use "Repair" in Control Panel to restore the icon.

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IDE:
  Version: 4.6.4265
  Electron: 34.5.5
  Chrome: 132.0.6834.210
  Node: 20.19.1
  Platform: win32-ia32
  Date: 2025-10-14 12:07:56 +0000
  Git commit: 40f93bab9e9f83bbdb544ed76186d8fc16d1fbff
  Preferences:{
    "autoPW":"1",
    "autoStart":"1",
    "defaultConfig":"v20.0",
    "kbdLocale":"en_US",
    "keys":"{\"FX\":[\"Ctrl+S\"]}",
    "lbar":"0",
    "presetsCreated":"[\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 20.0 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 20.0 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 20.0 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 20.0 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 19.0 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 19.0 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 19.0 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 19.0 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 18.2 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 18.2 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 18.2 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 18.2 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 17.1 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 17.1 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 17.1 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files (x86)\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL 17.1 Classic\\\\dyalog.exe\",\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Dyalog\\\\Dyalog APL-64 21.0 Unicode\\\\dyalog.exe\"]",
    "sbar":"0",
    "sqp":"0",
    "zoom":"1"
  }

Interpreter:
  Version: 20.0.52434
  Platform: Windows-64
  Edition: Unicode/64
  Date: Sep 15 2025 at 18:31:40

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