🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:40:10 -0800, "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)"
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>"Jeff Kish" <jeff.kish@mro.com> wrote in message
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>> I don't write anything explicitly to the registry to keep
>> track of things though.
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>Then you won't be able to do what you are asking for.
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>> So can someone explain the proper way to make my
>> cbuilder installation program remove shortcuts?
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>The only way to do that is to do what every other install package does -
>keep track of the files you create during installation, so you know what to
>remove during uninstallation.  That doesn't take into account the user
>manually moving the shortcuts after than have been created.  You won't be
>able to do anything about that.  No other install package can handle that,
>either.  I suppose you could write a Shell Extension DLL that implements the
>ICopyHook interface so that you can update your tracking when files are
>being moved/deleted.  But that is just more work on your part.
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>> I'm not sure if I need to use some sort of ipersistfile.delete
>> call or what.
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>Once you know the filename of a .lnk file, just delete it like any other
>file.
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>Gambit
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OK. If I know the .lnk filename, then deleting that will "undo" what
the original creation of shortcuts did? I should be able to figure
that out I believe.

Thanks much
Jeff Kish