I am having issues installing scoop apps on a windows 7 PC at a place of employment.
However my PC was set up in a weird way with respect to the networked drives.
As a result this prevented scoop from installing shortcuts to Start Menu because Start Menu is located on a networked drive in my user domain and this operation used badly formatted path for shortcuts. As far as I can tell the programs always installs on the local drive.

For an example of installing git

PS C:\Users\at17> scoop install git
Scoop uses Git to update itself. Run 'scoop install git' and try again.
Installing '7zip' (19.00) [64bit]
7z1900-x64.msi (1.7 MB) [=====================================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of 7z1900-x64.msi ... ok.
Extracting 7z1900-x64.msi ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\7zip\current => ~\scoop\apps\7zip\19.00
Creating shim for '7z'.
ForEach-Object : Unable to save shortcut
"C:\Users\at17\Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\fpsvr2\users7$\at17\Start Menu\Programs\Scoop Apps\7-Zip.lnk".
At C:\Users\at17\scoop\apps\scoop\current\lib\shortcuts.ps1:4 char:50
+     $shortcuts | Where-Object { $_ -ne $null } | ForEach-Object {
+                                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (:) [ForEach-Object], FileNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.FileNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ForEachObjectCommand

My Start Menu is located in a networked drive that should begin with \\fpsvr2 however the error shows that \fpsvr2 was used instead. This path configuration is called UNC.

I am able to navigate to the Start Menu

PS C:\Users\at17> cd \\fpsvr2\users7$\at17\"Start Menu"\Programs
PS Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::\\fpsvr2\users7$\at17\Start Menu\Programs>

You can see in the destination directory that Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem precludes the UNC path as shown in the error above.

Proposed solutions;

• Move Start Menu - I need to ask my IT dept to do this and there is no guarantee this will happen.
• Fix UNC path handling. The dropping of backslash needs to be fixed.
• Option to ignore making shortcuts in Start Menu. I have no idea how important is Start Menu to operation of scoop. But this is a user facing feature and I have little use for this.