Patrick Steele wrote:
In wix 3, has there been a change to the creation of shortcuts?

<Component Id='ExecutableFiles' Guid='57E1279E-8C24-4ba0-BA34-FA4253886C52'>

<File Id='MatadorExe' Name='Matador.exe' Source='.\build\Matador.exe' Vital='yes'>

<Shortcut Id='StartMenuShortcut' Directory='ProgramFilesFBBT' Name='Matador 2.1'

WorkingDirectory='INSTALLDIR' Icon='Matador.ico' IconIndex='0' Advertise='yes' />


You're creating advertised shortcuts (Advertised="yes") and that's how they work. They let MSI check the health of the feature being invoked so they can't be modified. Use Advertised="no" if you want an editable target (and not the health checking).

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