alt Hacker NewsSoftware wants to be installed in C:\Program Files so that other software can’t modify their installation without admin permissions. Of course to do that your installer needs to be run as administrator which makes the whole thing rather silly.
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tredre3 • yesterday at 9:27 PM
Software installed through the Windows Store seem immutable enough even though they live in the user's AppData.
At least the system prevented me from seeing or modifying the files the last time I tried. I did not try very hard, admittedly, but by contrast modifying something in C:\Program Files is just one UAC confirmation away.
The fundamental issue is that installers shouldn’t exist
There’s no need to have an executable program just to essentially unzip some files to disk