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I think it's called that way because of some kind of naming convention that Windows expects from installers?
by 1880 14y ago
I think it's called that way because of some kind of naming convention that Windows expects from installers?
- debacle 14y agoI have a whole folder full of installers. Only a few of them are named setup.exe.
- sriramk 14y agoNo such convention. Windows does some funky detection of when the exe might need to elevate privs but it detects anything with the word setup in the filename.
- skeletonjelly 14y agoNope. But I think it's a part of ClickOnce, the technology they use to bundle up an app into a setup.exe that fetches the latest source from a web server.
- pseale 14y agoNope. At work we have a similar setup.exe file. The setup.exe is a bootstrapper that installs prerequisites first, then runs the ClickOnce installer which is separate.