Hi all, To bring up to speed with my problem... I had to convert some installs to pass Windows Logo testing, which meant (among many other things) that no component can have more than one shortcut. So, since I require a Start menu shortcut and a Desktop shortcut, I came up with the brilliant plan of creating an LNK file of an advertised shortcut that I can install in it's own compnetn and have the Desktop shortcut defined within that. So, you end up with a shortcut pointing at a shortcut... it all works and Windows Logo verification we got.
I have recently discovered that while this solution is fine across all OS, a curious thing happens on Vista should you decide to disable UAC. The app installs fine and creates the Desktop shortcut just as I'd expect. Hoever, when you double-click this shortcut it runs the app only one. It seems that as soon as you use the shortcut, Vista decides to change it... the icon disappears, the 'Shortcut' pane on the properties dialog disappears and the file is 0.8kb smaller!! Clearly UAC is stopping Vista from making this change, but why is this happening and what can I do about it? Regards, Gareth -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Broken-shortcuts-in-Vista-tf3356646.html#a9335671 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
