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Installation Directory

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I’ve got a Win64 electron-based app and I’m now trying to create an installer for it. Running the example program creates C:\Program Files (x86)\<AppName> Installer which is unfortunate. I’d prefer to be able to change this to C:\Program Files\<Company>\<AppName> - is there any scope for doing this?

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Qillycommented, Mar 28, 2018

Thanks for the more full explanation. I’m now confused and will go back to carefully look at whether things have changed in the past year. The problem was that originally the installer actually did go to C:\Program Files (x86) and therefore did require UAC anyway. Perhaps I made a mistake at that time or perhaps that was changed.

It certainly makes sense for programs that update themselves not to constantly require UAC for this to occur smoothly and that’s definitely what Squirrel does.

I posted this in windows-installer, thinking that there was a difference between Squirrel and the “windows-installer” project. Or did one replace the other?

Anyway, thanks again for the clarification.

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DrakeXiangcommented, Oct 8, 2019

Perhaps I made a mistake at that time or perhaps that was changed.

electron-winstaller has always used Squirrel.Windows and never installed to “Program Files”, perhaps you were using a different tool? 🤔

I just encountered this problem, does building a msi distribution enables clients to select installation path?

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