In my installer, I have created a few shortcuts on the start menu and the
desktop. However, the first time that I launch an application through its
shortcut, the default Windows Installer dialog pops up with a progress bar
and tells me to "Please wait while Windows configures" my application. I am
setting up my shortcuts as follows:
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="My Application Directory">
<Component Id="component_MyApplication" Guid="{GUID}">
<File Id="file_MyApplication" KeyPath="yes"
Source="Source\MyApplication.exe">
<Shortcut Id="shortcut_MyApplicationStartMenu"
Directory="directory_StartMenu" Name="Run My App"
WorkingDirectory="INSTALLDIR" Advertise="yes" Icon="MyApplicationIcon.exe"
/>
<Shortcut Id="shortcut_MyApplicationDesktop"
Directory="DesktopFolder" Name="Run My App" WorkingDirectory="INSTALLDIR"
Advertise="yes" Icon="MyApplicationIcon.exe" />
</File>
</Component>
</Directory>
Is there something that I'm doing wrong here? I have verified that the
shortcut target (in this example, MyApplication.exe) does indeed exist at
the time I launch the shortcut, so I'm not really sure what Windows
Installer is doing. Obviously, I don't want users to encounter another
dialog after they've already installed everything.
Also, I don't really know whether it's relevant to this discussion or not,
but could somebody clarify the significance of the Shortcut/@Advertise
attribute beyond what's provided in the .chm doc? If I set this attribute
to "no", then I get errors like the following:
error LGHT0204 : ICE43: Component component_MyApplication has
non-advertised shortcuts. It should use a registry key under HKCU as its
KeyPath, not a file.
error LGHT0204 : ICE57: Component 'component_MyApplication' has both
per-user and per-machine data with a per-machine KeyPath.
However, I want this installer to install the application on a per-machine,
rather than per-user, basis.
Thanks.
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