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Feature request: Allow installation without requiring administrator privleges #330

Open ajohnstone-ks opened 4 years ago

ajohnstone-ks commented 4 years ago

I understand per #326 the reasoning why administrator privileges are required to install an MSIX package on Windows 7.

We are looking to migrate our existing WinForms ClickOnce installation to MSIX, as a prerequisite to convert it to .Net Core and allow us to include the run-time with our application.

It would be great if MSIX Core could detect that a package doesn't create registry entries and it may be installed into the user's profile, much like ClickOnce, so that packages that are effectively just an xcopy deployment can be installed without admin rights.

troygeiger commented 4 years ago

Could a permission element be added to the manifest to indicate when admin privileges are required?