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Problems with shortcuts. I want to create an icon shortcut on the desktop for my app and in the startmenu for the app and the Uninstall.exe. I followed the instructions provided in https://docs.installforge.net/getting-started/quick-start-guide/#configuring-shortcuts . Icon file is <InstallPath>\myA...

Solved. Simply restarting the computer. But I still don´t know the reason for this behaviour!
Best regards V.

I'm working with Install Forge 1.4.4 (Windows 10). The update check built by Install Forge (called from a python script) always worked fine. Now I get the message: "Verbindung zum Server wurde erfolgreich hergestellt Update-Informationen konnten nicht empfangen werden." In English: "C...

There´s no possibility to add any command/function to InstallForge being executed BEFORE installation (with the possibility to stop the installation process properly). At least, I didn´t find any.
We would appreciate such an urgently needed feature very much!
Kindest regards
V.

Hi all, similar problem: Installation path problem: wrong path is constructed! The default installtion path is set to Installation path = <LocalApplicationData>\<AppName> which works fine. If the user changes the default value and chooses a path from the seelection window, then instead of : Installa...

This works, thank you!

I want to build a setup.exe that could be run without admin privilege. possible?
main reason: when the user runs the setup as admin the <ApplicationData>\<AppName> is the admin path. is there a workaround?
we don´t need admin rights for running the app!
Thanks for a good solution!

Found a quick workaround:
in the InstallFOrge folder there is only an update.exe, so I ran this one, this produced th ERROR mentioned above.
When I started the ifbuilderenvx86.exe in bin, it worked fine...

Something similar happened to me (most likeli same reason);
ERROR: could not archive uninstaller

No idea. Same project file ran yesterday.
Thanks for a quick solution.