Unable to set custom name for Windows in taskbar and shortcut and 1 windows error during installation

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Please describe your issue:

Building for Mac osx and Windows is successful and I can install and run the app correctly, however I have 2 Windows issues. If I run the Windows installer, I get an error alert from squirrel.exe saying only: 'The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)`. I can ignore/dismiss the error and still everything is working fine and the app is installed properly.

Also, I’m unable to change the name in Windows, the taskbar and startmenu still displays “Electron” as the name, the icon is however correct.

Console output when you run electron-forge with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-forge:*. (Instructions on how to do so here). Please include the stack trace if one exists.

What command line arguments are you passing?

electron-forge publish --target=electron-release-server --platform=win32 --arch=ia32

What does your config.forge data in package.json look like?

"electronWinstallerConfig": {
        "name": "MyName",
        "owners": "MyName",
        "authors": "MyName",
        "title": "MyName",
        "noMsi": false,
        "setupIcon": "src/desktop_icon.png.ico",
        "loadingGif": "src/installer.gif",
        "iconUrl": "https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/xx-desktop/favicon.ico",
        "description": "MyName"
      },

Please provide either a failing minimal testcase (with a link to the code) or detailed steps to reproduce your problem. Using electron-forge init is a good starting point, if that is not the source of your problem.

[MarshallOfSound]

In order to set the application name and such, you need to set the values in electronPackagerConfig. Check https://electronforge.io/config

[Lorempn2]

Well I would like to generate builds on Windows, but’s thats unfortunately also not working… another strange error. The specified executable is not a valid application for this platform when running this command in Win7/32bit:

electron-forge publish --target=electron-release-server --platform=win32 --arch=ia32

Edit: Updated NodeJS (from 6.x to 8.x) on Windows to the latest version which also gave me NPM 5.3. Now it was time for another nice clear fatal error during electron-forge make. The command npm prone --production failed. Very nice… Googled it and ended up with this issue: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17781

Turned out to be an NPM bug or something, so I rolled back to NPM5.2 and now that error is gone but I am still stucked with an error on windows saying: this specified executable is not a valid application for this OS. But I’m on a 32bit Windows pc trying to make a 32bit build, so the os is valid…