| Subject: | Advertised shortcuts are not supported. |
Advertised shortcuts can be created by MSI installer, and have been
around for a while. For example, Adobe Reader 8 and higher, MS Office
2007 applications, and others come with advertised shortcuts. You cannot
modify (or even read target path) them via regular Properties dialog in
Windows.
But you cannot read them via Win32 IShellLink Interface, the MSI
interface must be used. Somewhere in MSDN I read, that to get path to a
shortcut, one should use MSI first, and if it fails (it will if it's
regular shortcut) IShellLink Interface should be used.
Maybe this module should be enhanced to support advertised shortcuts as
well? Look here how you can read target path of advertised shortcut to
locally installed application.