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Installer doesn't try to update existing installation, instead acts as fresh install every time.

See original GitHub issue

Environment

Windows build number: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.752]
PowerToys version: 0.16.1
PowerToy module for which you are reporting the bug (if applicable):

Steps to reproduce

Say you already have an old version (0.15.2) of PowerToys installed on a non-default path - D:\Software\PowerToys.

You learn that a new version (0.16.1 for example) is available and you download the new msi from github.

Run the msi.

Expected behavior

During the installation process, the installer should detect that the software is already installed in the system, should detect the path where it is installer and then install the update to the same path (D:\Software\PowerToys from example).

Actual behavior

During the installation process, looks like the installer tries to do a fresh installation and isn’t aware of existing installation of older version. It offers the default C:\program-files\PowerToys path as installation location.

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Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

github_iconTop GitHub Comments

1reaction
bagarwacommented, Apr 30, 2020

Confirming that this is now working in 0.17. Thanks guys.

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nickpage221commented, Apr 8, 2020

0.16.0 was removed.

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