[wpkg-users] Per-user installation?

[Justin Brinegar]

Glad I could help.

Looks like WinDirStat's newest version defaults to C:\Program 
Files\WinDirStat.  According to the installation dialog, it is merely 
placing executables and creating folders/.lnk files for Start 
Menu/Desktop shortcuts.  I confirmed this is all that's happening by 
looking at windirstat1_1_2-src\make\setup\setup.cpp (look at it starting 
around lines 162 and line 206).  You could just place these things into 
a user location with a logon script if you wanted - though each user's 
location would be different and you may need to create custom shortcuts 
if you do this.  It doesn't look like WinDirStat is a moving target.  
Since I employ roaming profiles, I try to keep only the bare minimum in 
user profiles and I install absolutely all applications to user agnostic 
locations on machines.  For something as small as WinDirStat, I can't 
imagine people would complain that a given machine now has 1mb less 
available space.

While I can't attest to LightScribe from experience, many applications 
support more than one directory for plugins/themes/etc - and usually at 
least one that is system-wide.  If this is true for LightScribe, you may 
not have to worry about installing to user locations at all.

Justin

Kevin Keane wrote:
> Thank you Justin! I actually have three such applications, but Google Chrome is the biggest one, so your hint helps tremendously.
>
> The second one is WinDirStat.
>
> The third one is trickiest because it also has a dependency on a systemwide application: themes for LightScribe are installed per-user, while the application itself is systemwide.
>