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Author Windows Installer shortcuts.
Vimm

2004-12-29, 4:22 pm

I've been poking around with Windows Installer lately and have gotten everything working the way I want it to, however I can't seem to figure out shortcuts. I can create them on the File System tab to be added to the start menu folder and they are, but when I click on one it brings up a Windows Installer window for a few seconds before running the shortcut. Every single time I click on any shortcut I created it pops up a Windows Installer status bar for a few seconds. It's quite annoying.

I've also noticed that the shortcuts all have a notepad type icon instead of the icon of their target, they are 3K in size rather than 1K, and the shortcut target points only to the product name value [ProductName] rather than the full path.

Any idea why these shortcuts are all screwy and what I can do to make a standard shortcut?
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