You could advertise the shortcut.  That's most straight forward.  Or you could 
ignore ICE69.  I've considered doing so in the past... it is a very frustrating 
situation for cases that don't happen often.

-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Jewell (Perl-programming e-mail) 
[mailto:lists.wix-us...@csjewell.fastmail.us]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 10:16
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Why is this not registering the shortcuts as all-user 
ones? (fwd)

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Bob Arnson wrote about Re: [WiX-users] Why is this not...:

> Curtis Jewell (Perl-programming e-mail) wrote:
>> Package/@InstallScope='perMachine' should turn on ALLUSERS=1 and therefore,
>> avoid those particular 2 ICE's, correct?  If not, why not? I'm puzzled.
>>
>
> Sadly, no. Because ALLUSERS is a public property, it can be reset at the
> command line. See
> http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/4/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-shortcut-and-pass-all-the
> for details/workaround.

Fair enough.

Could I deactivate the checks at the command line and it'd work? (I'll
throw in a condition that kicks if they try to install if not ALLUSERS=1.)

[I REALLY would like to avoid the registry if at all possible for this
piece of software.  It doesn't use it anywhere else.]

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