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    <p>This is not a question, but rather an answer.<br> One part of the issue is available here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/751000/how-to-install-program-shortcuts-for-all-users">How to install program shortcuts for all users?</a><br> Quote:<br> "... How do I let the installer create a shortcut under the All Users profile, so that everyone on the machine has the shortcut?"<br> Another - here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2058230/wix-create-non-advertised-shortcut-for-all-users-per-machine">Wix create non advertised shortcut for all users / per machine</a><br> Quote:<br> "... In the tutorials I've seen use a registry value for the keypath of a shortcut. The problem is they use HKCU as the root ..."</p> <p>The main difficulty in creating an uninstall shortcut.</p> <p>The solution is based on Rob Menching's blog post <a href="http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/4/27/how-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the" rel="nofollow noreferrer">How to create an uninstall shortcut (and pass all the ICE validation)</a>. </p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- Script from Rob Menching's blog post --&gt; &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi"&gt; &lt;Product Id="PUT-GUID-HERE" UpgradeCode="PUT-GUID-HERE" Name="TestUinstallShortcut" Language="1033" Version="1.0.0" Manufacturer="Microsoft Corporation"&gt; &lt;Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine" /&gt; &lt;Media Id="1" /&gt; &lt;Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir"&gt; &lt;Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder"&gt; &lt;Directory Id="ShortcutFolder" Name="My Application"&gt; &lt;Component Id="UninstallShortcutComponent" Guid="PUT-GUID-HERE"&gt; &lt;RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\[UpgradeCode]"&gt; &lt;RegistryValue Value="RobMen Was Here." Type="string" KeyPath="yes" /&gt; &lt;/RegistryKey&gt; &lt;Shortcut Id="UninstallProduct" Name="Uninstall My Application" Target="[System64Folder]msiexec.exe" Arguments="/x [ProductCode]" Directory="ShortcutFolder" Description="Uninstalls My Application" /&gt; &lt;RemoveFolder Id="RemoveShorcutFolder" On="uninstall" /&gt; &lt;/Component&gt; &lt;/Directory&gt; &lt;/Directory&gt; &lt;/Directory&gt; &lt;Feature Id="TestUninstallShortcut" Title="Test Uninstall Shortcut Feature" Level="1"&gt; &lt;ComponentRef Id="UninstallShortcutComponent" /&gt; &lt;/Feature&gt; &lt;CustomAction Id="LaunchApp" Directory="TARGETDIR" ExeCommand="[System64Folder]reg.exe Delete HKCU\Software\[UpgradeCode] /f" /&gt; &lt;InstallExecuteSequence&gt; &lt;Custom Action="LaunchApp" After="InstallFinalize"&gt;(NOT Installed) OR UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE&lt;/Custom&gt; &lt;/InstallExecuteSequence&gt; &lt;/Product&gt; &lt;/Wix&gt; </code></pre> <p>In this example:<br> In the item "Package" added <code>InstallScope ="perMachine"</code><br> Changed the registry key to <code>"Software\[UpgradeCode]"</code><br> Added CustomAction <code>LaunchApp</code> to remove the unwanted registry key. </p> <p>Tested on WinXP 32bit and Win7 64bit.</p>
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