[WiX-users] Problem with registrering shortcuts when using perMachine installations

[neslekkim <as...@ne...>]

This example:
http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/howtos/files_and_registry/create_start_menu_shortcut.html

If one takes that example, and changes it a little, Allusers=1 and HKLM in
registrykey for the shortcut component

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
    <Product Id="*" UpgradeCode="CF252026-F1CE-4307-94C7-C7031BEB2023"
Version="1.0.0.0" Language="1033" Name="My Application Name"
Manufacturer="My Manufacturer Name">
        <Package InstallerVersion="300" Compressed="yes"/>
*        <Property Id="ALLUSERS" Value="1" />*
        <Media Id="1" Cabinet="myapplication.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />

        <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
            <Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
                <Directory Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY" Name="My
Application Name"/>
            </Directory>
            
            <Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
                <Directory Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" Name="My
Application Name"/>
            </Directory>
        </Directory>

        <DirectoryRef Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY">
            <Component Id="cmpmyapplication.exe" Guid="*">
                <File Id="myapplication.exe"
Source="MySourceFiles\MyApplication.exe" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
            </Component>
            <Component Id="documentation.html" Guid="*">
                <File Id="documentation.html"
Source="MySourceFiles\documentation.html" KeyPath="yes"/>
            </Component>
        </DirectoryRef>

        
        <DirectoryRef Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder">
            <Component Id="ApplicationShortcut" Guid="*">
                <Shortcut Id="ApplicationStartMenuShortcut" 
                     Name="My Application Name" 
                   Description="My Application Description"
                    Target="[APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY]myapplication.exe"
                          WorkingDirectory="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY"/>
                <RemoveFolder Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder"
On="uninstall"/>
                <RegistryValue Root=&quot;&lt;b>HKLM*"
Key="Software\Microsoft\MyApplicationName" Name="installed" Type="integer"
Value="1" KeyPath="yes"/>
           </Component>
        </DirectoryRef>

        <Feature Id="MainApplication" Title="Main Application" Level="1">
            <ComponentRef Id="cmpmyapplication.exe" />
            <ComponentRef Id="documentation.html" />
            
            <ComponentRef Id="ApplicationShortcut" />   
        </Feature>
    </Product>
</Wix>

then I get these errors:

error LGHT0204 : ICE38: Component ApplicationShortcut installs to user
profile. It's KeyPath registry key must fall under HKCU.
error LGHT0204 : ICE43: Component ApplicationShortcut has non-advertised
shortcuts. It's KeyPath registry key should fall under HKCU.
error LGHT0204 : ICE57: Component 'ApplicationShortcut' has both per-user
and per-machine data with a per-machine KeyPath.

If I change to HKMU (as described here:
http://www.adivo.com/samples/xmlschema/wix-lite/t842.htm )
I get this error:

error LGHT0204 : ICE57: Component 'ApplicationShortcut' has both per-user
data and a keypath that can be either per-user or per-machine.

Why?

If I change back to HKCU, everything works fine for compile, I can install,
program installs correctly, shortcuts are put in the public start menu (or
public desktop for my project where I also do that), but the registrykey is
put in the registryhive for the user installing the program, I want that to
be for local machine, as it is documented to be that way.
As far as I understand, this is required to uninstall properly?, The user
who installs this software on our clients computers can be another person
than the one that will be servicing and updating next time, thus, different
registry hive for the other user.

Btw, the orginal example does not work correctly, the Target property in the
shortcut element is wrong, and the linker gives me the following warning:
warning LGHT1076 : ICE69: Mismatched component reference. Entry
'ApplicationStartMenuShortcut' of the Shortcut table belongs to component
'ApplicationShortcut'. However, the formatted string in column 'Target'
references file 'myapplication.exe' which belongs to component
'myapplication.exe'. Components are in the same feature.








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