bug#68756: Uninstalling emacs does not remove Start Menu entries created during the installation

[Stefan Kangas]

Дилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed Emacs on Windows using emacs-29.1_2-installer.exe . It has 
> put a folder named “Emacs 29.1” in the Start Menu.  That folder has two icons 
> “Emacs” and “Uninstall”.
>
> Then I installed emacs-29.2-installer.exe .  It asks “Select the Start Menu 
> folder in which you would like to create program's shortcuts.  You can also 
> enter a name to create a new folder” and the system suggests as name 
> “Emacs-29.2”.  I «Close» to complete the setup with the suggested folder.  
> Now I have for each emacs version a separate directory under C:\Program 
> Files\Emacs .
>
> I also have two Start Menu folders: Emacs-29.1 containing “Emacs” and 
> “Uninstall” and Emacs-29.2 containing only “Emacs”.  I click on “Uninstall”.  
> It says “Emacs-29.2 will be uninstalled”, despite being in the 29.1 folder, 
> but it actually deletes the emacs-29.1 and emacs-29.2 files.  After the 
> deinstallation the Start Menu folders “Emacs-29.1 and Emacs-29.2” are still 
> present.
>
> • Uninstalling emacs should remove the Start Menu directories, created during 
> installing emacs.
> • Installing emacs should ask to first remove the previously installed emacs 
> version, as long as it does not do inplace upgrade (substitution).
>
> Kind regards
>   Дилян

Corwin, could you please take a look at the above bug report?