[wix-users] Lost Shortcuts in Latest build

Blaine Wheeler blainekw at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 09:53:03 PDT 2019


Looking in the log to be certain :
The user executing the MSI is the same one that did it last time.

If installing for 'all users' verify the user running the msi has enough
privileges.

Has he OS changed since your last installation?

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:57 AM Brian E via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> We have a WiX project that creates a few desktop and start menu shortcuts.
> This project has been working correctly for months until today.  Our latest
> installation test revealed that the Start menu shortcuts are no longer
> being created.  The WiX project has not been changed in over a month and
> the executables that the shortcuts point to have not changed..
>
> Is there something in the log file created using
>
> msiexec /i Myproject.msi /l*v MyProject.txt
>
> that would help me determine why the shortcuts are not being created?
>
> Or has anyone else encountered this issue and found a solution?
>
>
> TIA
> Brian
>
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