---
name: hydrogen-naming-windows
description: >
  Windows companion to hydrogen-naming: the Windows-specific frozen identifiers
  and install-surface names for Adom Hydrogen and Adom Bridge. The naming
  doctrine itself (Formal Names, the installer rule, shorthands, dead names)
  lives in hydrogen-naming. Trigger words: appdata hydrogen-desktop, installer
  filename windows, hydrogen exe name, wsl distro name, add remove programs
  name, autostart registry name.
---

# Adom product naming: Windows frozen identifiers

The doctrine (Formal Names, THE INSTALLER RULE, shorthands, dead names) is in
`hydrogen-naming`. These are the Windows-specific identifiers and surfaces.

## Windows install surfaces that MUST say "Adom Hydrogen" / "Adom Bridge"

- Start Menu entry, desktop shortcut, taskbar pin, taskbar-search result
- Installer artifact filename: `Adom Hydrogen_x.y.z_x64-setup.exe`
- Add/Remove Programs entry
- Autostart registry value name

## Frozen Windows identifiers (do NOT "fix" these)

These deliberately keep old spellings because they are load-bearing state or
build identity; renaming them breaks installs:

- Windows state dir `%APPDATA%\hydrogen-desktop`
- The binary is `hydrogen.exe` (Cargo package `hydrogen-desktop`)
- WSL distro `Adom-Workspace`

## Related skills

- `hydrogen-naming` (base): the doctrine and the cross-platform frozen identifiers