[wix-users] Using user's home directory as working directory (a.k.a startup directory) for shortcuts

[Clifford Yapp]

I should provide a little more context:

When the attempt was made to do this for Powershell, they looked at using
the WorkingDirectory property in Shortcut:
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/6043#discussion_r164277035

Apparently, trying to store environment variables there didn't work -
either they were evaluated, or the quoting resulted in invalid variables in
the final install.  I was hoping there is some sort of special variable or
syntax the Windows Installer might recognize to allow unresolved variables
in the final shortcuts.

Thanks,
Cliff

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:33 AM Clifford Yapp <cliffyapp at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was actually hoping to use something like %USERPROFILE% as the "Start
> In" directory - setting this manually in Windows on the link files appears
> to do what I would expect.
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
>
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