Windows: Shortcuts of user installations not removed when uninstallation is run as administrator #341
Description
Checklist
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- I searched open reports and couldn't find a duplicate
What happened?
When creating a conda environment with shortcuts as a user and uninstalling them later as administrator, shortcuts are not removed because menuinst looks at the wrong location.
Steps to reproduce:
conda create -n <env name> git -c defaults -y- Open a Terminal as Administrator and activate
condaif needed. conda remove git -y
Conda Info
active environment : menuinst-test
active env location : C:\Users\<user>\miniconda3\envs\menuinst-test
shell level : 2
user config file : C:\Users\<user>\.condarc
populated config files : C:\Users\<user>\miniconda3\.condarc
conda version : 25.1.1
conda-build version : not installed
python version : 3.12.9.final.0
solver : libmamba (default)
virtual packages : __archspec=1=skylake
__conda=25.1.1=0
__cuda=12.8=0
__win=10.0.26100=0
base environment : C:\Users\<user>\miniconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : C:\Users\<user>\miniconda3\etc\conda
conda av metadata url : None
channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch
package cache : C:\Users\<user>\miniconda3\pkgs
C:\Users\<user>\.conda\pkgs
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs
envs directories : C:\Users\<user>\miniconda3\envs
C:\Users\<user>\.conda\envs
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\conda\conda\envs
platform : win-64
user-agent : conda/25.1.1 requests/2.32.3 CPython/3.12.9 Windows/11 Windows/10.0.26100 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/25.4.0 libmambapy/2.0.5 aau/0.7.0 c/. s/. e/.
administrator : False
netrc file : None
offline mode : FalseConda Config
==> C:\Users\Marco Esters\miniconda3\.condarc <==
channels:
- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main
- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r
- https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2Conda list
# packages in environment at C:\Users\Marco Esters\miniconda3\envs\menuinst-test:
#
# Name Version Build Channel
git 2.45.2 haa95532_1 defaultsAdditional Context
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