Creating Windows 8 Start screen groups and tiles (

Question

We are using Inno Setup to build installers for our ActiveX grid control. With the release of Win8, two new questions arose:

1. Is it possible to create our own new group of tiles on the Start screen (with a specified name) to place our shortcuts/tiles to it using InnoSetup?

2. Now, only the tiles for the exe's we install are created on the Start screen. Is it possible to add tiles for other file types - say, CHM help file or PDF documents - to this screen?

Answer 1

The named grouping under "All appa" is created from the folder heirachy as with all versions of Windows since 95. This means you'd use code like this for all versions of Windows:

[Setup]
DefaultGroupName=Your app shortcuts

[Icons]
Name: "{group}\Your app help"; ...
Name: "{group}\Your app registration"; ...

The only control you have over the main Windows 8 start screen is whether created shortcuts to executables get added automatically with the excludefromshowinnewinstall flag. You have no control over grouping as they're added to the end.