DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 disables all shortcuts

windows-installer orca advertised-shortcut
HatAndBeard picture HatAndBeard · Jan 29, 2010 · Viewed 16.3k times · Source

We have an application to be run on startup that allows many installed files to be changed after installation. We are trying to turn off the self-healing mode by setting the DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 property in Orca. However, no shortcuts are being created when this property is set. All the information I've seen indicates that we should be able to create "non-advertised" shortcuts with DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1 set. Any ideas?

I have verified that the shortcuts are created correctly if DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS is left unchanged.

Answer

Doctor Bonzo picture Doctor Bonzo · Apr 15, 2010

If you're creating a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio 2008, there's a very slick trick to make your shortcuts NON-advertised:

Add a textboxes panel in the UI editor. Make all the textboxes invisible. Make one of the properties 'DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS' instead of EDITAx. Make the value '1'. Your shortcuts will be non-advertised.

I'd like to give credit for this to whomever I stole it from, but I can't seem to find the original link.

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