InstallAware

Hi all,

Try as I might, I can't seem to get either "pin to start menu" or "pin to taskbar" to work. I have tried installing on a few systems, one XP and two Windows 7 Premium machines, and none are pinning anywhere. Below is my code. Presumably it's the 0|X7 line that contains the options.

Create Shortcut $SHORTCUTFOLDER$\\Helpdesk to $TARGETDIR$\\Helpdesk.exe, Pin to Start Menu, Pin to Taskbar

~InstallAware Clipboard Data~
~Create Shortcut~
~{6F9C2AF9-7F84-48D0-9086-8934DD2F84F9}~
~$TARGETDIR$\\Helpdesk.exe~
~Helpdesk~
~$SHORTCUTFOLDER$~
~~
~~
~~
~~
~~
~0|X7~


Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,

Bob

First report we've had of this since release, its been three quarters without incident on this item

I'm quite curious, can you right-click on the shortcut you create to the application, and check if it offers a "pin to" menu item in Windows itself?

Hello,

Windows7 prevents programs from pinning to taskbar when they contain several keywords like "help" in the filename of internal description.
See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... aspx#which

When you want to let the installer pin an icon to taskbar the "AppUserModelID" of the link has to be set to another value. How can I set this value in InstallAware?

Regards,
Michael

semike wrote:When you want to let the installer pin an icon to taskbar the "AppUserModelID" of the link has to be set to another value. How can I set this value in InstallAware?

No news on how to set the AppUserModelID?

Regards,
Michael

You have to set that within your application, not InstallAware.

In case this issue was related to an AppID setting on your shortcut(s), the Create Shortcut command in InstallAware 9 R2 has now been extended to support this property.