Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> I don't know a lot of software that can be installed without 
> administrator rights on Windows...


I've seen one or two, mainly stuff served off a web server to interact with 
the web services one particular company offers, like online meeting managers 
and such. That, and a few packages like Tcl and some games. If you like, I 
can spin up a XP VM and see where an old version of Tcl puts itself when you 
ask for a per-user install, since it's a similar sort of language-processing 
package.

The ones I've seen recently create a directory for themselves under the 
parent directory of "my documents". (I.e., "my documents" isn't really your 
"home" directory any more than "Desktop" is.) That might be a better place 
to put things in future releases, since it's less obtrusive.  And I'm 
*pretty* sure you can change the association for files on a per-user basis, 
but I might be misremembering that.

Alternately, putting the code under local appdata and the data under roaming 
appdata might make a lot of sense also.

Of course, all that assumes you can tell whether you're actually installing 
for one user or for everyone. :-)

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