Re: [WiX-users] "Newly installed" start menu highlight

2007-12-12 Thread Kevin Richardson
Thanks, Nathan. Turns out that having the word "Install" in the shortcut was enough to get ruled out. Sheesh! -kevin Original message From: "Nathan Stohlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] "Newly installed"

Re: [WiX-users] "Newly installed" start menu highlight

2007-12-12 Thread Nathan Stohlmann
Raymond Chen had a great blog post about the basics of Start menu highlighting a couple of years ago that shed some light on the topic. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/11/24/496690.aspx All that said, my understanding is that it's still kind of a black box to us installation develop

[WiX-users] "Newly installed" start menu highlight

2007-12-12 Thread Kevin Richardson
Hi all, When a new program is installed, XP/Vista generally highlight the start menu shortcut in orange (unless you have disabled it). Is there anything that can prevent this from happening? The shortcut from an installer I'm currently working on never appears as a new program with highligh