The application itself writes values to %AppData%. Yes it does require admin and that is a best practice. Does it automatically go into appdata if it doesn't? Having the new installer go straight into Program Files typically requires admin permissions. The shortcut paths not being unique is why the shortcuts break. Another functional issue is it clutters up menus and desktops for normal install cases when unique installers and shortcut paths are created for each version. ![]() Installing multiple versions gets tricky with msi files. The snapshots already behave this way, but anything older is ignored as a version it can upgrade. After the release of 1.4.0, it will behave as a normal installer with versions and snapshots released after. ![]() As a result, the value that would normally be defined to allow 1.3.3 to upgrade normally does not work. ![]() The reason this is a thing is we were previously using an installer project that was bloated and had too many WiX values that were hard defined. Having both 1.3.3 and 1.4.0 installed has been a boon since I was able to compare the two versions and use the previous version if I need a feature that doesn't work yet.
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