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Arduino Cloud Agent

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Improve Windows installation and update process #960

Open Xayton opened 5 months ago

Xayton commented 5 months ago

There are multiple improvements that can be made to the Agent on Windows (which is the most used OS according to our download statistics):

Investigate if it's possible to install the Agent on Windows without needed administrative rights. This might need changes in the setup process. This could help a lot our customers that do not have admin rights on their computers.
Investigate reports of the Agent restarting, after an update request from the front-end, but not updating and not restarting afterwards.

Other things to check, while working on the install flow:

Make sure that the installer is usable on HiDPI displays
Make sure the installer is usable when using the dark theme (on 3 operating systems). We had reports that some text does not get the correct color and is barely visible in dark mode.

umbynos commented 5 months ago

Which step of the installer requires admin rights? By searching in the installer configuration I see there are multiple occurrences of <runAsAdmin>0</runAsAdmin>, probably the default is 1 and we forgot to set it to 0 in some step.