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 developers. Something to check for though from his points: Do the shortcuts point to applications that are already installed on the machine? Like notepad or rundll32? Generally as long as they point to an actually new file I've generally seen them show up as "new". --Nathan On Dec 12, 2007 2:23 AM, Kevin Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 highlighting. I've never seen this happen with > my other installers and I'm so far unable to find what is different in > this case. The shortcut properties are the same as usual (advertised, > etc.). I've tried substituting different executables and there's no > change. > > Thanks, > > -kevin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- --Nathan Stohlmann Minneapolis, MN USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
