\nToday’s Little Program creates a shortcut on the Start menu\nbut marks it as “Do not put me on the front page upon installation.”\nThis is something you should do to any secondary shortcuts\nyour installer creates.\nAnd while you’re at it, you may as well set the\n“Don’t highlight me as a newly-installed\nprogram” attribute used by Windows 7.\n(Remember, Little Programs do little to no error checking.)\n<\/P>\n
\n#define UNICODE\n#define _UNICODE\n#define STRICT\n#include <windows.h>\n#include <shlobj.h>\n#include <atlbase.h>\n#include <propkey.h>\n#include <shlwapi.h><\/p>\nint __cdecl wmain(int, wchar_t **)\n{\n CCoInitialize<\/A> init;<\/p>\n
CComPtr<IShellLink> spsl;\n spsl.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink);<\/p>\n
wchar_t szSelf[MAX_PATH];\n GetModuleFileName(GetModuleHandle(nullptr), szSelf, ARRAYSIZE(szSelf));\n spsl->SetPath(szSelf);<\/p>\n
PROPVARIANT pvar;\n CComQIPtr<IPropertyStore> spps(spsl);<\/p>\n
pvar.vt = VT_UI4;\n pvar.ulVal = APPUSERMODEL_STARTPINOPTION_NOPINONINSTALL;\n spps->SetValue(PKEY_AppUserModel_StartPinOption, pvar);<\/p>\n
pvar.vt = VT_BOOL;\n pvar.boolVal = VARIANT_TRUE<\/A>;\n CComQIPtr<IPropertyStore> spps(spsl);\n spps->SetValue(PKEY_AppUserModel_ExcludeFromShowInNewInstall, pvar);<\/p>\n
spps->Commit();<\/p>\n
wchar_t szPath[MAX_PATH];\n SHGetSpecialFolderPath(nullptr, szPath, CSIDL_PROGRAMS, FALSE);\n PathAppend(szPath, L”Awesome.lnk”);\n CComQIPtr<IPersistFile>(spsl)->Save(szPath, FALSE);<\/p>\n
return 0;\n}\n<\/PRE>\n
\nFirst, we create a shell link object.\n<\/P>\n
\nNext, we tell the shell link that its target is the currently-running\nprogram.\n<\/P>\n
\nNow the fun begins.\nWe get the property store of the shortcut and set two new properties.\n<\/P>\n
\n
- \n Set\n \n System.AppUserModel.StartPinOption<\/A>\n to\n
APPUSERMODEL_STARTPINOPTION_NOPINONINSTALL<\/CODE>.\n This prevents the shortcut from defaulting to the Windows 8\n Start page.\n- \n Set\n \n System.AppUserModel.ExcludeFromShowInNewInstall<\/A>\n to
VARIANT_TRUE<\/CODE>.\n This prevents the shortcut from being highlighted as a new application\n on the Windows 7 Start menu.\n<\/UL>\n\nWe then commit those properties back into the shortcut.\n<\/P>\n
\nFinally, we save the shortcut.\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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