Testing revealed that whether the shortcut is advertised or not advertised
makes a difference in the calculations that the shell uses to decide that a
shortcut is "new" or not. As I recall, non-advertised shortcuts fail to
highlight more often, having something to do with either the creation or the
modification date on (I think it was the file that the shortcut points to).
Someone in our group once came up with a hack where they reset all the file
time/dates after the file is written for all the files that non-advertised
shortcuts point to in order to get the highlighting to work.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 1:15 AM
To: Quinton Tormanen; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] New Program Highlighting is missing
Magic. I'm not joking. The shell does some magic to tell when new apps are
installed an are not installed. When I install and uninstall a bunch of times
the shell sometimes remembers and sometimes doesn't remember that this is a
"new product". I don't know what to make of it.
I expect Raymond Chen knows the secret to the magic.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quinton Tormanen
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:39 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] New Program Highlighting is missing
Does anyone know what controls the New Program highlighting on the Program
menu? I know it can be turned on and off by the user, but my tester has it
turned on and when he run my installer it adds a folder with two shortcuts in
it, but says that it's not highlighted as a new program.
Any ideas?
Quinton Tormanen
Software Engineer
Delta Computer Systems, Inc.
http://www.deltamotion.com
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