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Tools and documentation for Win32 app isolation
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[Inquiry]: Does installation of apps require admin privilages? #46

Open upintheairsheep opened 1 year ago

upintheairsheep commented 1 year ago

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Does the installation of apps on the Win32 App Container require admin privileges (ex: installing Google Chrome require an admin prompt for the whole system?)

tiangao-ms commented 1 year ago

The installation of the isolated win32 app does not require admin privileges. Actually MSIX installer won't ask for admin privilege at all.

upintheairsheep commented 1 year ago

The installation of the isolated win32 app does not require admin privileges. Actually MSIX installer won't ask for admin privilege at all.

Will admin be needed to install this app?

upintheairsheep commented 1 year ago

The installation of the isolated win32 app does not require admin privileges. Actually MSIX installer won't ask for admin privilege at all.

Also, is user data (appdata, etc) separated from the program files?

tiangao-ms commented 1 year ago

Admin is not needed to install the app. "user data" is a bit vague in the context. Most of the files on the disk are considered "user data", which means data that belong to the user. As for the data generated by the app, it would be the developers that decided where to store it. The app does not have write access to their own program files. The access is controlled to different locations on the disk when the app tries to store data.