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Question: what is the difference between the preinstalled edge webview runtime and the one downloaded from microsoft website? #24

Closed terrytw closed 12 months ago

terrytw commented 1 year ago

Dear dev, thanks a lot for the scripts!

I want to ask a question about the difference between preinstalled edge webview runtime and the one downloaded from microsoft website: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

Their names seems identical, but the one downloaded separately will not be removed by this script, so I presume that they are different?

The reason I am asking is that my company has this PTC windchill and creoviewer combo for viewing documents. It works with preinstalled webview runtime. If I run the script with $also_remove_webview = 0, it still works. If I run the script with $also_remove_webview = 1, it won't work afterwards, even if I install the edge runtime webview again using the installer downloaded from Microsoft website.

It would be much apprecicated if you could provide some insights to this, maybe pointing to a place where I should look? Thank you!

AveYo commented 12 months ago

I suspect is no longer an issue - but the only difference is system-wide vs per-user - edge / webview installers supports installing as admin or as standard user so that could make the difference (so make sure you run the installers as admin)