install Windows App in user account

[AiguoYan]

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• I searched in the issues and found nothing similar.

Motivation

The Windows version of the App requests admin right to install. For people working on company PCs, they don't have admin right to install it. I wonder if you can allow the windows version of the app installable in a normal user account.

Many thanks!

Solution

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Alternatives

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Anything else?

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Are you willing to submit a PR?

• I'm willing to submit a PR!

[wanmyj]

I think this is a really good suggestion, and I may spend sometime working on it

[cmj2002]

Any updates on this feature?

[cmj2002]

I have successfully installed the app in user account by running powershell command:

msiexec.exe /i OpenAI.Translator.msi INSTALLDIR=$env:USERPROFILE\OpenAITranslator\ MSIINSTALLPERUSER=1 ALLUSERS=2

Not sure if it works for everyone, but it works for me. You can change the value of INSTALLDIR to any directory where you have permission to write.

I am not familiar with Tauri, but I believe there is a place where you can set the default values for MSIINSTALLPERUSER and ALLUSERS, so that we don't need command line to install the app in user accounts.

References:

1. Command line options of msiexec.exe
2. MSIINSTALLPERUSER
3. ALLUSERS

[cmj2002]

I am not familiar with Tauri, but I believe there is a place where you can set the default values for MSIINSTALLPERUSER and ALLUSERS, so that we don't need command line to install the app in user accounts.

Found it! The support of installing tauri app in user account has been merged into tauri v2 and might be released when the v2 is released.

I suggest adding these to the README:

• The command line installation method for non-administrator users (after some tests)
• The reasons why direct installation is currently not supported