advertised-shortcut

A question is about Wix and setting the icon of an advertised shortcut: If your installer contains a manual, or document in say .pdf format and you want to create a shortcut to the PDF file. Is it possible to use an icon for the shortcut based on the systems file associations? e.g. User has Adobe reader, the shortcut gets adobe pdf icon. User has Foxit/Other reader, the shortcut gets that program icon instead. etc. As far as I understand the installer magic, this is not possible. This has nothing to do with Wix but is a general MSI behaviour. Thus you would need to use un-advertised shortcuts

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. If you're creating a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio 2008,

In WIX, how do you create a non advertised shortcut in the allusers profile? So far I've only been able to accomplish this with advertised shortcuts. I prefer non-advertised shortcuts because you can go to the shortcut's properties and use "find target". 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. When HKCU is used, and another user uninstalls the program (since it's installed for all users) the registry key is left behind. When I use HKMU as the root I get an ICE57 error, but the key is removed when another user