ClickOnce install with no start menu entry

Question

Is it possible to deploy several windows apps using click once, but not to have them all create icons on the start menu?

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The reason for doing this (if you're interested) is that we are distributing several windows applications within our company, the main one will allow the user to log in and depending on their permissions build a menu of applications they can use. The menu application will fire off the sub applications passing them user anme and password. The menu items will be added dynamically from the database so other allications can be added as needed. For this reason it cannot be one large ClickOnce install.

It all works apart from the fact tha the are a load of items added to the start menu

Answer 1

You can select, under the "Install Mode and Settings" section, "This application is available online only". This prevents a start menu item from being created and means that the application can only be launched from the site it's published to.