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In addition, the application can become a full-fledged manager of the \r\nWindows start menu, with which you can rename, change, add new shortcuts.\r\n\u003cdetails\u003e\r\n  \u003csummary\u003eMicrosoft Windows Defender\u003c/summary\u003e\r\n  Windows Defender swears at almost all programs compiled with \r\n  pyinstaller. The fact is that in reality pyinstaller packages \r\n  the Python interpreter and all the libraries used into a single \r\n  exe file. This and some other reasons is why such low-grade antiviruses \r\n  as Microsoft Defender identify the signature of the program collected \r\n  from Python sources as a threat. More details \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/im3jrj/windows_defender_thinks_that_code_i_wrote_using\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e.\r\n  \u003cbr\u003eHowever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/78e829a0f9e97f21b10562ad28746f564a8ad58ce6b808b48ff9afdc59d78be0\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e is the VirusTotal review.\r\n  \u003cbr\u003eYou can also build the application yourself. The source code is in front of you.\r\n\u003c/details\u003e\r\n\r\n### Preview:\r\n### Installation:\r\nChoose one of the ways:\r\n- [Download](https://github.com/qwerty-w/start-menu-cleaner/releases) the latest version of the executable file from the releases.\r\n- Run from the Python interpreter:\r\n```commandline\r\npython3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt\r\npython3 start.py\r\n```\r\n- Using pyinstaller, build the executable file:\r\n```commandline\r\npython3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt pyinstaller\r\npyinstaller start.spec\r\n```\r\n### Usage:\r\n- Available optional arguments:\r\n```commandline\r\nusage: Start Menu Cleaner [-h] [--logging {full,cleaning}] [--style {classic,material}]\r\n\r\noptional arguments:\r\n  -h, --help            show this help message and exit\r\n  --logging {full,cleaning}\r\n                        full - recording full work in a single file, cleaning - recording only the clean process to a file (each cleaning is a new file), temp file path example - C:\\Users\\user\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\sm-\u003cname\u003e-\u003ctimestamp\u003e.log       \r\n  --style {classic,material}\r\n                        classic - default Windows style, material (by-default) - material style\r\n```","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fqwerty-w%2Fstart-menu-cleaner","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fqwerty-w%2Fstart-menu-cleaner","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fqwerty-w%2Fstart-menu-cleaner/lists"}