Re: Installation on Windows 11

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Lee <[email protected]> wrote on 2025-04-25 at 10:11:27:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 5:41=E2=80=AFAM Fabian Keil wrote:
> >
> > PARISSE Michel via Privoxy-users <[email protected]> wrot=
e on 2025-04-23 at 12:26:32:
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> > > I suspect that running the installation of privoxy has to be run in
> > > administrator mode. If that is the case, could this be explicitly
> > > documented in the section on windows installation?
>=20
> Do you have a Privoxy icon on the taskbar?  that right clicking gets
> you a menu showing
>   Exit Privoxy
>   Edit
>   Enable
>   Show Privoxy Window
>=20
> I have a vague memory of installing privoxy as a service and that
> disabling or removing the privoxy taskbar icon.
>=20
> Was this the bit you followed?
>=20
>   After invoking Privoxy with --install
>=20
> if so, don't do that.  You can end up with something that works, but
> that's about all I can say for it.
>=20
> If you just double click on the installer it should ask where to install =
it
>   the default being  c:\program files (x86)\privoxy
> and it will create a shortcut for you in
>   C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
> that will automatically start privoxy when you log in.

Does this then run Privoxy as the same user as the one that's logged in?

If I remember correctly the advantage of using the "--install" option
is that Privoxy can be executed by a dedicated user (with the downside
of not having the taskbar icon like you mentioned).

> > Lee, do you know what the oldest supported Windows version is?
>=20
> Windows 10 support ends Oct 2025, so I suppose Windows 10 is the
> oldest supported version of Windows for another 6 months.
>=20
> > I'm wondering if we still support versions that have no administrator
> > mode. The documentation (doc/source/supported.sgml) claims we do but
> > I suspect that it may be out of date.
>=20
> The only windows machine I have is running windows 10.
>=20
> https://cygwin.com/ has this bit:
>   The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially
> released x86_64 versions of Windows, starting with Windows 8.1.
>=20
> note the "released x86_64" .. 32 bit CPUs are not supported any more.
> And a bit further down
>   Cygwin 3.4.10 was the last Cygwin version supporting Windows 7,
> Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012.
>=20
> So you can't use the currently supported cygwin to build privoxy for
> Windows 7, etc.  Which means using old software with known vulns :(

I wonder if there are still users building Privoxy on earlier
Windows releases.

In doc/source/supported.sgml, we don't explicitly list the supported
versions of other operating systems except for Mac OS X so maybe
we shouldn't do it for Windows either.

Fabian

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