Re: [Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

2017-07-17 Thread Bruce Mutton via Therion
It is outside of my area of expertise, however: * No 1 seems dangerous, at the whim of future MS updates and there are bound to be people with non-standard setups, or very old Windows versions, any of which might break something that tries to be too clever. * No 2 is OK by me. I don

Re: [Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

2017-07-17 Thread Footleg via Therion
Usually a Windows application installer offers the option to install to a location of the users choosing. If this was done then users wanting to install without admin privileges could choose a location they have write permissions for. Otherwise users can choose to just click through 'Next' on each

Re: [Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

2017-07-17 Thread Владимир Георгиев via Therion
Yes, the location is flexible. I think it was that way in the old installer too. But there are also global Start menu shortcuts and registry entries that go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. For those the installer needs admin rights. If it doesn't have them, it comes down again to the All users vs Current

Re: [Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

2017-07-17 Thread Footleg via Therion
I have yet to meet a Therion user who knows another Therion user who they share a computer with. So I would be happy with install for Current user only. Footleg On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 1:15 PM Владимир Георгиев via Therion < therion@speleo.sk> wrote: > Yes, the location is flexible. I think it w

Re: [Therion] Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

2017-07-17 Thread Владимир Георгиев via Therion
I got your idea :) That means making the installer non-admin only, so it will always install the shortcuts and registry entries for the Current user only. And the default suggested install location will be in the user's AppData folder, not in Program files. The theoretical Therion user who shares