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Adding Windows Start menu items
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When a package is installed, it can add a shortcut to the Windows
**Start** menu. Conda and conda-build handle this with the
package `menuinst <https://github.com/ContinuumIO/menuinst>`_,
which currently supports only Windows. For instructions on using
menuinst, see
`the menuinst wiki <https://github.com/ContinuumIO/menuinst/wiki>`_.

The easiest way to ensure that a package made with
`conda constructor <https://github.com/conda/constructor>`_ does
not install any menu shortcuts is to remove menuinst from
the list of conda packages included. To do this, add the
following to the ``constuct.yaml`` file:

.. code-block:: yaml

  exclude:
    - menuinst