Re: 12.3.0.1 NAU version

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Hello Jernej,

Monday, August 3, 2026, 1:39:08 PM, you wrote:


> On Sunday, August 2, 2026, 23:35:04, Alto Speckhardt wrote:

>> That would be a mistake. The autoupdate-version is still unusable: It 
>> fails to install into \Program Files, instead it installs into the user 
>> profile directory.

> There's a reason why basically no program that does auto-updates uses .msi (including Microsoft's own software) – Windows Installer simply isn't suitable for such programs.

In my opinion, the idea of "installing software into the user's profile" should be banned along with spiking girls' drinks. It bloats up the entire profile and have fun backing it up or migrating somewhere else. Some kings of space waste like Chrome will even leave several sets of entire program distribution alongside each other in there. Gigs and gigs lost.
Microsoft really ought to have created a dedicated way of installing stuff in "userspace" while keeping it recognizable from actual data.



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 Viktor Kabelac                            mailto:[email protected]
TheBat! 12.2.0.17 Pro (x64, no OTFE) on Windows 11
10.0 x64  26200 
 



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