Software Deployment

Ensure that ALLUSERS property value is 1 in the property table..

When you deploy the MSI through a deployment tools, it gets installed in System context. The shortcuts are placed in userprofile, so in system context userprofle resolves to C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile.

What you can do is move your shortcuts from userprofile to AllUsersProfile, which resolves to C:\ProgramData in Windows 7.

Install it per machine. If you install it in user context, it will install in systemprofile only and it is not a feature of Win 7, but earlier as well.

Thank you all for your replies!

The ALLUSERS property is set to 1 (per machine).

If I had the same problem with the shortcuts deploying the same package to a Windows 7 x86 machine I would stay corrected, but now I really can't see the what's causing the issue.

To summarize:

If I deploy the same package to a non-logged on Windows 7 x86 or Windows XP machine the shortcut ends upp correctly in Start Menu | All Applications | <Vendorname>, but deploying it to a Windows 7 x64 the shortcut ends up in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\<Vendorname>.

Regardles of wich user I'm later using to log on to the machine, I can see that the application is installed in appwiz.cpl, wich I wouldn't do if the application were installed per user?

I can't see any conditions in the feature holding the shortcut component or in the shortcut component aswell, neither in any custom action.

What is the location for your user profile where start menu is situated?

Try ALLUSERS=2 as well and let me know how it worked.