Re: [WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install. Should it be HKMU?

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony Wieser
2007 1:19 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install. Should it be HKMU? > D'oh! Including the link might have helped. Here it is. > > http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/04/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the.aspx

Re: [WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install. Should it be HKMU?

2007-06-07 Thread Rob Hamflett
D'oh! Including the link might have helped. Here it is. http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/04/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the.aspx Rob Rob Hamflett wrote: > Rob has a blog post on how to create a shortcut that passes validation. > Personally I stopped paying >

Re: [WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install. Should it be HKMU?

2007-06-07 Thread Rob Hamflett
Rob has a blog post on how to create a shortcut that passes validation. Personally I stopped paying attention to those warnings long ago. Rob Tony Hoyle wrote: > Anthony Wieser wrote: >> Looking into this further, HKLM doesn't work, however reading the ICE43 >> documenation, it says: > > Yes

Re: [WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install. Should it be HKMU?

2007-06-07 Thread Tony Hoyle
Anthony Wieser wrote: > Looking into this further, HKLM doesn't work, however reading the ICE43 > documenation, it says: Yes, ICE43 is wrong in this respect. It should read ALLUSERS and check (using HKMU is an interesting workaround though). > That almost works, but then you get an ICE57 error

Re: [WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install. Should it be HKMU?

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony Wieser
Looking into this further, HKLM doesn't work, however reading the ICE43 documenation, it says: The Attributes column is set to use the registry, but the referenced registry entry is not under HKCU. To fix this error, either switch to a different registry entry as the KeyPath for this component,

[WiX-users] Sanity Check: Shortcuts and HKCU for a per machine install

2007-06-07 Thread Anthony Wieser
Many of the examples I've seen show an idiom that has a component containing a registry key and a shortcut. Supposedly, the reason is that this supports user roaming profiles somehow, which I don't quite understand. However, on Vista, the HKCU this will be installed into is the local system ac