Hmm, does this blog entry help: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/4/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Vijai Kalyanapasupathy < [email protected]> wrote: > I have looked around all day for solutions to this issue, but I couldn't > find anything that actually worked. > > Here is what I had originally:- > > <DirectoryRef Id="DesktopFolder"> > <Component Id="SkyAdminDesktopShortcut" > Guid="E69C9AAC-3BB5-4730-B65A-976923D69821" Win64="$(var.is64bit)"> > <Shortcut Id="SkyAdminDesktopShortcut" Directory="DesktopFolder" > Name="AdminCon" LongName="LiveId Admin Console" > WorkingDirectory="INSTALLDIR" > Target="[WindowsFolder]\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" > Arguments="foo"/> > <CreateFolder/> > </Component> > </DirectoryRef> > > I got ICE38 and ICE43 errors:- > > skyadminserver.wxs(20) : error LGHT0204 : ICE38: Component > SkyAdminDesktopShortcut installsto user profile. It must use a registry key > under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file. > skyadminserver.wxs(20) : error LGHT0204 : ICE43: Component > SkyAdminDesktopShortcut has non-advertised shortcuts. It should use a > registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file. > > I read up on this issue and based on what I could find this can be solved > via two different tacks:- > > > 1. Set the shortcut to be an advertised shortcut. I didn't think this > will work; I tried it anyway and it didn't. > > 2. Add a registry entry under HKCU that acts as the key path for the > component. I tried this by adding the following:- > > <RegistryValue Id="RegShortcutDesktop" Root="HKCU" > Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\$(var.GroupName)" Name="Installed" Value="1" > Type="integer" KeyPath="yes" /> > > Which resulted in:- > > <DirectoryRef Id="DesktopFolder"> > <Component Id="SkyAdminDesktopShortcut" > Guid="E69C9AAC-3BB5-4730-B65A-976923D69821" Win64="$(var.is64bit)"> > <RegistryValue Id="RegShortcutDesktop" Root="HKCU" > Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\$(var.GroupName)" Name="Installed" Value="1" > Type="integer" KeyPath="yes" /> > <Shortcut Id="SkyAdminDesktopShortcut" Directory="DesktopFolder" > Name="AdminCon" LongName="LiveId Admin Console" > WorkingDirectory="INSTALLDIR" > Target="[WindowsFolder]\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" > Arguments="foo"/> > <CreateFolder/> > </Component> > </DirectoryRef> > > But that still didn't solve this problem. I get exactly the > same errors are the previous one. What am I doing wrong? > > Thanks, > > Vijai Kalyan<sip:[email protected] <sip%[email protected]>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
