The default installer have issues in Windows

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A Download Manager that speeds up your downloads

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The default installer have issues in Windows #47

Closed amir1376 closed 1 month ago

amir1376 commented 3 months ago

There are some problems when we want to install the app

if users want to update the app when app is already running the installer can't close the app gracefully and it breaks the installation process or even corrupt the installation directory ( user have to manually close the app in system tray in order to successfully update the app)
another problem is that after each installation APP_ID will change! so installer can't detect previews installation location!

I already created an issue in the compose issue tracker and waiting for their response

sitiom commented 3 months ago

find PID of the app in task manager and try to stop it gracefully using cmd
taskkill /PID <PID>
after that you will see that app still remains in task manager!

Killing the process via the process name works:

amir1376 commented 3 months ago

@sitiom That's right, but you use /F here! which tries to force stop the app (non graceful stop)

The default installer does not have this flag to stop the app by force ,and there is no way to configure it to do so (as far as I know)

To reproduce this just install a previous version and when app is running try to install the latest version! You will notice that the installer can't stop the app and ask you to restart the computer to finish the installation!

amir1376 commented 1 month ago

Finally I created an nsis installer for the app. now we can have more control and customization in windows