I have a legacy Batch-File that starts up my application after doing some configuration. Trying to migrate to install4j i ran into the problem, that i cannot generate a launcher that only executes the batch file and gives me all the perks a generated launcher would offer. The current (pretty ugly tbh) workaround is to package a separate executable jar
Tag: install4j
How does install4j decide where in the registry to store the installation dirs?
I am observing some instdir keys stored in local machine, and some in current user: Is that based on a configuration setting? Answer The local machine keys are only writable with elevated privileges. If no “Request privileges” action has been executed, the current user keys are used.
Install4j 64-bit Setup doesn’t uninstall previous 32-bit Version
We changed our Application from 32-bit to 64-bit with the last version increase but now our installer doesn’t recognize when there is a previous version installed, so it doesn’t unistall the previous version when installing the new one. Example: App version 1.0.0 32-bit App version 2.0.0 32-bit App version 3.0.0 64-bit App version 1.0.0 is installed and version 2.0.0 installer