[GIS] No icons when installing QGIS

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I've been trying to install QGIS 3.4.4 Madeira on Windows 10 x64. I've tried the network installer and the standalone version, both of which say they installed successfully but no desktop or start menu items appear and I can't find any way to run the software.

There's no qgis.bat file in the bin folder, just a qgis.bat.tmpl. Renaming that as I saw someone suggest doesn't do anything.

Also saw a suggesting to remove qt5 files from the system32 folder but there aren't any of those files in there.

Any ideas what could be going wrong with the install?

Best Answer

Running postinstall.bat fixed the problem on QGIS 3.16.

Close QGIS and make sure it's not running on your PC.

  1. Navigate to the following folder: C:\Program Files\QGIS 3.16
  2. Rename postinstall.bat.done to postinstall.bat
  3. Right click on postinstall.bat and "Run as Administrator".
  4. Run QGIS and you should see the icon.
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