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marchaesen / vcxsrv

Windows X-server based on the xorg git sources (like xming or cygwin's xwin), but compiled with Visual Studio 2012 Community Edition.
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Install without admin rights #8

Closed roti closed 3 months ago

roti commented 5 months ago

It would be nice if the installer would work without admin rights.

It managed to get it running like this:

set __COMPAT_LAYER=RunAsInvoker
start vcxsrv-64.21.1.10.0.installer.exe

But the shortcuts were not created, for obvious reasons:

Error creating shortcut: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\VcXsrv\Uninstall VcXsrv.lnk
Error creating shortcut: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\VcXsrv\XLaunch.lnk
dZ8Lx9OwX commented 3 months ago

I thought this might help you. Making Portable

roti commented 3 months ago

@dZ8Lx9OwX Thanks, but the point of this issue is to have the installer support non-admin installations. I already installed it with the trick above, and it worked (up to the fact that the shortcuts are not created, but that can be fixed by hand).

marchaesen commented 3 months ago

-noadmin.exe installers added in 21.1.13 release