Walt, All working for install & uninstall now thanks to your prompting & explanation of the directory attribute.
For future reference:- I also tried using the WindowsVolume supplied property to get to the root of things in a drive letter independent way. This resulted in an error. I then saw this link by Ravikumar Gopinath:- http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Error-using-WindowsVolume-predefined-folder-td3313078.html So using this seems to provide a drive letter independent solution:- <SetDirectory Id="WINDOWSVOLUME" Value="[WindowsVolume]"/> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="WINDOWSVOLUME"> <Directory Id="UsersDir" Name="Users"> <Directory Id="User1Dir" Name=user1"> <Directory Id="AppdataDir" Name="Appdata"> <Directory Id="RoamingDir" Name="Roaming"> <Directory Id="MicrosoftDir" Name="Microsoft"> <Directory Id="WindowsDir" Name="Windows"> <Directory Id="StartmenuDir" Name="Start Menu"> <Directory Id="ProgramsDir" Name="Programs"> <Directory Id="StartupDir" Name="Startup"> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> <DirectoryRef Id ="StartupDir"> <Component Id="CMP_MyAppStartupShortcut" Guid="GUID Here" KeyPath="yes"> <Shortcut Id=" MyAppStartupShortcut " Name="MyApp" Description="Launch MyApp" Target="[ProgramDir]MyApp.exe" WorkingDirectory="ProgramDir" Icon="icon.ico"/> </Component> </DirectoryRef> Cheers, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 February 2014 16:16 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. I was just coming in to correct the path... The problem you're having is that the Directory attribute is supposed to be the ID of a directory, not the path to a directory. Here's how I'm dealing with absolute paths. My standard disclaimer with WiX advice is that I first used WiX in November and I still don't feel like I know what I'm doing, so there may be a much easier way to do anything. <CustomAction Id="CA_SetCDrive" Directory="C_DRIVE" Value="c:\" /> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="CA_SetCDrive" After="CostFinalize" /> </InstallExecuteSequence> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"> <Directory Id="C_DRIVE" Name="CDrive"> <Directory Id="DIR_PROGRAMDATA" Name="ProgramData" > <Directory Id="DIR_MICROSOFT" Name="Microsoft" > <Directory Id="DIR_POINTOFSERVICE" Name="Point of Service" > <Directory Id="DIR_CONFIGURATION" Name="Configuration" /> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> Then, assuming you got all the rest of your values right, you would have: <Shortcut Id="MYShortcut" Name="MyApp" Description="Launch MyApp" Target="[ProgramDir]MYApp.exe" WorkingDirectory="ProgramDir" Icon="icon.ico" Directory="DIR_CONFIGURATION"/> and your shortcut would land in c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Point of Service\Configuration. (Not a sensible place to put a shortcut, of course, but it's the snippet I could steal easily.) I assume that you have an <icon .... /> element with Id="icon.ico" because I think that's an ID as well. I've never done a shortcut or icon in WiX, though. We don't even have the explorer shell running. We have a custom shell that has it's own way of doing Startup and RunOnce. Good luck- Walt On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:47 AM, <paul.chor...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello Ilir, > > Thanks for your response, how do I add a shortcut to that path in WIX > (C:\Users\<TheUser>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start > Menu\Programs\Startup)? > > Cheers, > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ilir Bekteshi [mailto:ilir...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2014 13:22 > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific > User's Startup Folder. > > If you want your Shortcut to appear in Startup folder for everyone > then put it in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start > Menu\Programs\Startup > > For a specific user then > C:\Users\<TheUser>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start > Menu\Programs\Startup > > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:06 PM, <paul.chor...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a kiosk type PC system, that on boot up, automatically logs > > on a special restricted user account with a preconfigured password. > > My application then launches automatically using a shortcut present > > in only that special users Startup folder. The installation scope is > > per machine as other users may need to run the application from time > > to time for diagnostic purposes. The application installation is > > always done using an admin account. > > > > In the past using VS2010:- > > > > 1. The solution MS "Setup Project" installed all of the common > > features successfully. > > > > 2. I utilized the MS "Installer Class" which through some c# code > > created an application shortcut in the special user's startup folder > > during installation and removed it during uninstallation. > > > > With the demise of the above VS2010 features in later VS versions I > > have just over the last two weeks looked at WIX as an alternative. > > So far the WIX project will successfully install & uninstall the > > common features successfully, that is DLL, EXE files and some simple > > all user application shortcuts on the desktop and start menu. > > > > After searching for ages, I cannot determine how to set a startup > > shortcut in just the special user account. From my searches this > > does not appear to possible just using the basic WIX. > > > > I would really appreciate some directional guidance. Maybe a "C# > > custom action project" should be used? 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