Why do you need admin upon launch of the installer?

[5ynt4x_3rr0r_]

Wait so if you can chose the install location before installing why do you need admin upon launch of the installer? If you chose to install it to AppData or an external disk or something it shouldn't need admin to install. It should only need to request admin once you hit install with the install location set to somewhere that a standard user or program w/o admin can't write to.

[null54]

1 minute ago, 5ynt4x_3rr0r_ said:

an external disk

 

Paint.NET cannot be installed to an external disk.

[5ynt4x_3rr0r_]

Just now, null54 said:

 

Paint.NET cannot be installed to an external disk.

I just meant if you choose to install paint.net somewhere that you don't need admin to access the installer shouldn't need admin to install

[Ego Eram Reputo]

There is a big difference. The installer has elevated permissions because it can write to write to admin-only areas. You have chosen not to write to those areas.

[toe_head2001]

Yup. On GNU/Linux and macOS a process can be elevated anytime after it has been started, but on Windows, elevation must happen at process creation.

[5ynt4x_3rr0r_]

You have cursed me with days upon days of searching for how to have runtime elevation (is that what it's called?) in windows while devs at microsoft be like "hey Mike, should we finally add the ability for processes to be elevated during runtime? Nah Joe, too much woooooorrrk."

[Rick Brewster]

You don't understand how this system works or why, so obviously everyone else is lazy or stupid 🙄

 

Stop dumping on other people's threads.