Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-15 Thread John Daintree
riginal Message- From: Michael Tissington [mailto:michael_tissing...@ciqual.com] Sent: 12 August 2011 08:44 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location In the install set a r

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-12 Thread Michael Tissington
ssion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location Hi Christopher, Thanks for the comment, but if you were to do it how would you? /john -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-12 Thread John Daintree
n for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location Hi Phil, I think that, whilst that "works", the environment variable is de-referenced at install time, so if I d

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-11 Thread Christopher Painter
ay, August 11, 2011 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location Hi Phil, I think that, whilst that "works", the environment variable is de-referenced at install time, so if I do an ALLUSER install, every user gets the value of USE

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-11 Thread John Daintree
%" into the shortcut. /john -Original Message- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: 10 August 2011 19:00 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location Working

Re: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-10 Thread Wilson, Phil
: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:00 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location Hello all, In an ALLUSER install, I'm trying to set up my desktop icon(s) so that the WorkingDirectory is set to a per-user location.

[WiX-users] Setting the WorkingDirectory of a shortcut to a per-user location

2011-08-10 Thread John Daintree
Hello all, In an ALLUSER install, I'm trying to set up my desktop icon(s) so that the WorkingDirectory is set to a per-user location. If I do (bits omitted for clarity): Then every user's Working Directory is set to c:\Documents and Settings\john\My Documents\Our Files (as "jo