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How to remove old icon and shortcut


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mli8888

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 15:36

I am an new for InstallShield 11 basic MSI project. I created the project to install
Client/server application in Windows XP and put icon on desktop like (CRMS 9.00).
But when I install ner version for application, the project put new icon (CRMS 9.10)
but not removed the old icon (CRMS 9.00).
Could someone help me for this. Thanks a lot.
Mang

Stefan Krueger

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 10:04

Moving question to the Basic MSI forum

Stefan Krueger

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 11:09

If you do a Major Upghrade the shortcut should get removed.
In a small or minor update however, the new version overwrites the old version. Now shortcuts are just files with a special .lnk extension. The name of the shortcut is the name of the .lnk file. So if oyu change the name, the new one will not overwrite the old one, since the file names are different. You could put the old .lnk file in the RemoveFiles table, or use a shortcut name that's version independent.

mli8888

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 16:13

Thanks o lot Stefan. I solved this issue.
Mang