advertised-shortcut

How do you remove an advertised shortcut programmatically?

So I botched an msi installer and deployed it after only testing installation, not uninstall (bad I know, added running of an exe after install, but forgot to specify that it should only occur on install not uninstall). I found the Windows Installer Cleanup util, and the related msizap that I'll use to automate the process. The proble...

Wix create non advertised shortcut for all users / per machine

In WIX, how do you create a non advertised shortcut in the allusers profile? So far I've only been able to accomplish this with advertised shortcuts. I prefer non-advertised shortcuts because you can go to the shortcut's properties and use "find target". In the tutorials I've seen use a registry value for the keypath of a shortcut. T...

DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 disables all shortcuts

We have an application to be run on StartUp that allows many installed files to be changed after installation. We are trying to turn off the self-healing mode by setting the DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 property in Orca. However, no shortcuts are being created when this property is set. All the information I've seen indicates that we should be...