Windows Installer does not have native support for Internet shortcuts, and for this reason, there isn't a good way of creating one in the InstallShield Shortcuts view.
Instead you should consider either including the Internet Shortcut URL file as a raw file or using the Ini File Changes view to create an Internet Shortcut.
Your advise on how to create an internet shortcut worked like a charm ,thank you very much.
However, it has created a new issue. I use the INI file method to create the shortcuts - work great, but the shortcut files are locked after the installation completes. Doing an uninstallation fails to remove the newly created shortcut files. When I try to manually delete them afterwards, it says file is being locked by another process.
The issue is that I cannot relaunch the installation as it will fail when trying to write the shortcuts. The only solution is to reboot after an install to fix this.
The referenced KB article does not help. It doesn't walk you through step-by-step on how to get a shortcut to a URL.
Ajay Ladsaria wrote: Windows Installer does not have native support for Internet shortcuts, and for this reason, there isn't a good way of creating one in the InstallShield Shortcuts view.
Instead you should consider either including the Internet Shortcut URL file as a raw file or using the Ini File Changes view to create an Internet Shortcut.
